Word: torchlighted
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Chicago Democrats had their orders from their mayor and boss, Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years...
...balloon of football sentiment has been pricked sometimes during the last decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
...Gibbons was a Renaissance scholar-statesman-priest in a U.S. pioneer background. Born in Baltimore in 1834, he was chaplain to Federal troops during the Civil War. In 1868 he was appointed Missionary Bishop to the new Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, never forgot his welcome in Wilmington: a torchlight procession of drunken negroes, exulting in their new freedom. Youngest Bishop in his church at the Vatican Council of 1870, he became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, Cardinal...
After a spirited torchlight procession and the display of such banners as "It Won't Cost You Anything To Change The Name," the votes were cast. Results: Linoleumville, 4: Melvin. 58; Travis...
...girls had come up that morning, and some the night before. They brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School...