Word: processionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout a solemn night, members of the Foreign Office stood around the catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm...
Eight o'clock on the evening of Moving Day found 300,000 pilgrims gathered under the red-leaved maples of the sacred grove. A slender bamboo fence surrounded both old temple and new. Guards in medieval armor were stationed along the line with fire torches flaring against the evening...
The voice went on, describing: "This room from which I speak was the scene of work and accomplishments of our Presidents for over a century. Into this room first came John Adams, who had taken over the reins of administration of the newly established republic from George Washington. Each President...
Next day he flew back to Lakehurst, the sacks under his eyes less baggy. Train took him to New York where the city gave him a hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned...
A puzzled spectator might have asked, "Are Victrolas made out of tomatoes?" Not so the laboratory workers?the tomato procession comes every year and they pay no attention. Each farmer in the crowded thoroughfare, swings his sweating horses in an arc, drives his fruity load to the receiving platform of...