Word: pomp
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...Queen Elizabeth bade Chicago farewell. As sirens wailed and fireworks plumed above the lake, Queen and Prince boarded Britannia to sail on to Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur. In the harbor, a lone amateur trumpeter, on the deck of his cabin cruiser, touchingly sounded his own version of Pomp and Circumstance...
...more conspicuous success. It was the wonder of his career that this adopted son who spoke a heavily Teutonic-flavored English and shaped his musical style after the Italians managed to leave his bulky imprint on England as no composer before or since. When he was buried with regal pomp in Westminster Abbey in 1759, 3,000 people attended the ceremony, and the press reminded its readers that Handel was to music what "Mr. Pope was in poetry." Last week, with performances of the operas Samson, Semele and Rodelinda, the English were again busy honoring their imported genius...
...varsity baseball team will tackle Yale at Soldiers Field this afternoon, amid all the pomp and circumstance that traditionally surrounds this alumnidominated affair. Game time is 3:15, but a variety of parades and other preliminary festivities will begin more than an hour beforehand...
...socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
WASHINGTON--The body of John Foster Dulles will be buried this morning with military pomp in Arlington National Cemetery after funeral services in Washington National Cathedral...