Word: processional
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...the same procession of uniforms and frock coats, of English top hats alternating with plumed Bolivian helmets, as one saw in second-rate theaters, where triumphal marches of thirty men passed and re-passed in front of the same drop curtain, running when they were behind it, so as to...
The pilgrims pass in slow procession through the soft peach glow of the great rotunda, moving up to the shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures...
The response to these conditions was the creation of new, specialized institutions to deal with what had once been left to spontaneous and communal control. At the time of the Revolution, the "police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out...
Part I of the two-part Education of the Girlchild centers on the six women, definite characters yet impossible to type. Like figures in a dream, they're several personae blurred into one. Monk relates that her company struggled for a year and a half to make concrete these shadows...
The procession of stories that make the front page or 60 seconds on network television constitutes the daily brush between the run-of-the-mine reporter and the run-of-the-mine businessman, with the latter caught in the glare of the spotlight. Here is where we are fed a...