Word: processional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A procession of automobiles, with Mussolini & Balbo riding in the first one, took the officers & crew into Rome along Streets carpeted with laurel branches. A continuous blizzard of flowers and confetti all but buried the cavalcade. At the Piazza Colonna General Balbo made a speech: "We are humble soldiers of...
Unlike its regular musicales, the "Jinks" are held in secret and the guest list is limited. The festival is a series of musical entertainments, beginning with the ceremonious "Burial of Dull Care," ending with the "High Jinks" a musical play composed, staged, sung by members. Though the "High Jinks" are...
Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered...
* Fourth of July Conductor van Hoogstraten played the blustering Grand Festival March which Richard Wagner wrote for the Centennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Ever a shrewd business man, Wagner demanded $5.000 for his March and when it was finished he sent it, not to Conductor Theodore Thomas who...
Circling back, the Pope approached an altar on St. Peter's portico, behind which was a great tapestry of the Last Supper. He turned, held aloft the monstrance, pronounced solemn benediction. At once floodlights swept his white-robed figure. With his procession he re-entered St. Peter's...