Word: processional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I went to the College Jubilee on the 8th instant. A noble & well thought of anniversary. The pathos of the occasion was extreme & not much noted by the speakers. Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts; but on that day the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that...
The phone in Gates' office almost never rings. Nor do phones seem to ring much anywhere on the suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, lawns, white pines and courtyards that resemble those of a state polytechnic college. Gates runs his company mainly through three methods: he...
When he arrives there for dinner, owner Thierry Rautureau comes out to hug him and pour champagne. There follows a procession of a dozen courses, from black truffles and pureed celery root in smoked game consomme to venison with obscure types of mushrooms, each with different vintage wines. (The bill...
Not surprisingly, as the floats rolled by, complete with Aladdin, the Little Mermaid and many waving, lip synching comrades, the Big Man himself went unmentioned. There were no carols with the word "Jesus" or "Christ," no talk of the "Lord" the "Almighty" or "G--d." And aside from the parade...
Of Hong Kong's 6.3 million citizens, only 400 had a vote in the matter. And last week that elite group of electors arrived at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a procession of Rolls-Royces and Mercedes-Benz to cast their ballots for a winner anointed long before. Indeed...