Word: processionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It has been my privilege as a geologist to read the records in the rocks; knowing the ages of the rocks has led to better knowledge of the Rock of Ages; I have watched the procession of life on the long road from the one-celled but of primitive protoplasm...
In the nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years...
When he reached the capital a great cheering crowd met him in front of the railroad station. He was hoisted on the shoulders of two War veterans, and paraded around the circle in front of the Union Station with a drum and bugle corps leading the procession.
The Transcript editorial quoted in the adjacent column is as noteworthy as the subject which called it forth. Daily newspapers have the habit of burying educational topics at the tail end of their editorial procession. Like Abou Ben Adhem's name, this one led all the rest.
Last week, famed Frenchmen led a slow funeral procession across country roads through multitudes of mourning peasants and bourgeois to St.-Fargeau, near Paris, and buried the body of the disconsolate orator besides the grave of his wife.