Word: tableau
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...friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn't get any attention...
...tableau ended the ceremony when Captain French and Coach Horween clasped hands just out of reach of the flames. Lest any of the spectators should not see the allegory, the fourth assistant manager ran forward and set up at their feet a sign reading "SPRING FOOTBALL...
...even more important occasion Old Glory failed completely to be displayed over University Hall. On the fiftieth Anniversary of the Crimson the bunting was simpy not in evidence. While the Crimson editors, swathed in the folds of Old Glories, posed the whole day in a magnificent tableau representing Justice and Liberty and Righteousness standing on Bigotry and Prejudice at the Crimson Building on free display to every passerby, nowhere else did a single man pause to meditate on his country's emblem. Did one man in Harvard College say to himself in a reverential whisper: "Red is for bravery, blue...
...there was no committee on hand to meet him Consequently the reporter stepped into the breach, as a committee of one, and upon reaching Commander Byrd was confronted with the request for a pin. Confusion reigned until Abraham Lincoln, soon to appear with George Washington in a benefit tableau, extracted a pin from his costume and satisfied the need...
...occasion would be historic. Poet D'Annunzio, who retired last summer to a hermit's existence in his exotic home at Gardonne would emerge, journey to Assisi, and plant a tree in honor of St. Francis. Quel tableau...