Word: processionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Someone said to me yesterday, as we watched you march past, 'It isn't a procession, it is a micareme* parade.'
¶The Chief Executive spent an active week acquainting himself with the devices and desires of the Cabinet, the legislators and many minor executives. He re-examined his decision against a special session of Congress (see THE CONGRESS). He heard Senator Borah of Idaho on the subject of the onion...
Police lines kept the procession from passing the State Capital house. When the motorcade drew ahead of the bedraggled marchers and vanished in the distance, mounted police charged the marchers, who had grown noisy and quarrelsome. A remnant plodded on to Forest Hills.
As it must to all men, Death came last week to Saad Zaghlul Pasha,* 66, onetime Prime Minister of Egypt, leader of the Nationalistic Party, most potent figure of contemporary Egypt. Funeral. Under a blistering Af- rican sun, the Zaghlul funeral procession wended its way through the streets of Cairo...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth...