Word: pomp
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...John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges and members of the Norwich Corporation, all in full robes, as the Town Crier intoned, "Make way! Make way for God's and the King's Judge! Make way!" Sir John Hawke was in scarlet robe with imposing ermine collar...
During this season of Harvard's jubilee there is a great danger that amid the world-wide tribute, the pomp and circumstance inevitable in such an affair, Harvard men may lose sight of the real meaning of the Tercentenary. As it is understood that the birdseye views of Harvard's grandeur seen in the Sunday rotogravure show only the stage-set for the life of the university, so it must also be stressed that the present celebration merely reflects the satisfaction of Harvard men in the intellectual position of their university...
Stanley Baldwin who is considered in House of Commons circles set to retire from the Prime Ministry after the pomp and glory of the Coronation. According to Mr. Seeds, the old-fashioned Prime Minister was speaking strongly to the King about his projected modern holiday with Mrs. Simpson when His Majesty cut the conversation, saying with sarcasm: "Look here, if you don't stop it, Baldwin, I won't attend your beastly old Coronation." The King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera...
...reliably informed that the feminine garnishment of the delectable-looking Kent Lettuce Festival Salad [TIME, July 13] was not royal. The lettuce-mayonnaise-bedecked maidens were stand-ins, as it were, for Queen Opal and her Court, who were attending to more respectable matters. The traditions of pomp & circumstance ought not to be so callously overlooked even by democratic TIME. Let this be a lesson...
...most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...