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Word: processional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Last of all, I believe in the 'disregard' game, which consists of strolling nonchalantly by the procession and completely ignoring every likely petticoat. This is the subtlest of my tricks and can only be practiced by an intelligent person. Occasionally -- nay, perhaps more than that -- even this will not bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

As the state procession passed through newly renamed Mussolini Square, one of the Queen's snow-white Arab horses reared dangerously. A nimble Hungarian soldier sprang to his head in time to avert damage to Her Majesty. About 30 persons were overcome by the heat but otherwise it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Visit | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

At 3:05 p.m. a warning gun was sounded and the royal procession steamed out to the reviewing grounds. In the van rode Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the little steamer Patricia. Not as a Prime Minister but as an Elder Brother of Trinity House, he wore a uniform very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Naval Occasion | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

The pace of the whole performance, from the start of the Procession to the march up the Abbey's aisle, has been prodigiously slow, sedate, the cadence of Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Day in the Morning | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Television. At Hyde Park Corner, on the return route of the Procession, the most modern communication system of all was brought into play-Television. In its most ambitious experiment yet, B. B. C. trained three filmless scanning cameras connected with the central transmitting station by cable costing $5,000 per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation: 300,000,000 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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