Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the oozing process appeared complete. The Sinn Fein, also referred to as "The Irish Republican Party," assembled in convention (Ard Fheis) at Dublin and voted De Valera down, 223-218, on a question of policy after two days of secret sessions. Thwarted, Mr. de Valera resigned his "presidency," at last...
...Fairbanks is his usual volcanic self. That should be more than enough for any picture. Yet the coloring seems principally important in The Black Pirate. Somewhere they have found a process which eliminates the vagrant greens and reds that blurred earlier attempts. It is not yet perfect. Yet it is distinctive and a decided advance in cinema decoration...
...Committee on Relations with Schools will be a sort of liaison organization, especially designed to cater to those in the process of transition. It will in no sense be a machine for proselyting, although there are sure to be some who will read such a purpose into its creed. On the contrary its functions will be studiously non athletic. It will confine itself to strengthening the ties between school and college and thus strive toward the enviable unity achieved by the English system...
...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...mind or heart." After Charles Dickens' Funeral. "He is a great loss, for he had a large and loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the working classes." Telephone (1878). "After dinner we went to the Council Room and saw the telephone. A Professor Bell explained the whole process, which is most extraordinary. It had been put in communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous...