Word: processional
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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...
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...
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...
"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.
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...