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Word: processional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shakespeare was the first of the poets to turn his footsteps in imagination to the stones of Venice. After him a long procession follows, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Browning. One may almost say that the best of the English poets are those who loved Venice best. The delight of Shelley in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/28/1932 | See Source »

Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater?the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Hussies & Pillage | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

There was no mob to begin with, just a decent, orderly procession of substantial Newfoundland folk. Marshaled by a Catholic priest and two Protestant clerics they tramped through the streets of St. John's to the Colonial Building (Parliament House), begged leave to present a petition at the bar of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Damned If I'll Resign! | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

"Up the Republic!" roared a crowd of 15,000 Dubliners as a two-mile procession of marching Republicans (including Republican Girl Scouts and Republican Boy Scouts) wound its way into Glasnevin Cemetery and coiled around the graves of Ireland's Republican dead.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: King Doesn't Care? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Born in Upper Bavaria in 1878, he has first-memories of the views from his bedroom window, from the frame of which swung a large bead of clear blue glass. "I could swing it from side to side as I pleased, quickly in short jerks or slowly and largely, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rainbow Before Storm | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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