Crossword clues for pageants
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n. (plural of pageant English)
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Pageants is an indie rock duo formed in 2011 and based in Long Beach, California. Its members consist of Rebecca Coleman (formerly of Avi Buffalo) on vocals, guitar and keys, Devin O'Brien on guitar, and Dylan Wood on drums. "Coleman’s new band employs the shrill harmonies she lent to her former act’s breakthrough debut album last year," while lending itself towards "the lonely guitar jangle of early Liz Phair" rather "than Avi Buffalo's axe heroics."
Usage examples of "pageants".
When the girls were small I directed my own little pageants, right outside on our front lawn.
When the girls all got a bit older--in their teens--the pageants got stranger.
Jane Chambers had mentioned Georgie and Ramona filming pageants that centered on Emmett's World War I adventures, and two years ago at dinner, Ramona had said something about "Reenacting episodes out of Mr.
It seems that he witnessed some of Ramona and Georgie's pageants back in the thirties.
She started planning her pageants then--how she would get back at Emmett symbolically in ways so subtle that he would never know he was being thrashed.
A number of parents found the pageants disturbing, and forbade their children to play with the Sprague girls.
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of after life, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school, and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed--because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of that canonized epoch and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden sword pageants and its fishing holydays.
I feigned disinterest in continuing with the pageants and told him if I did not exercise the option, we would commence with selling or dismantling the company.
I also called my good friend Bob Wright, chairman and CEO of NBC, to tell him the pageants might become available.
I knew that NBC had recently acquired Telemundo, and the pageants are huge in Latin markets.
These images brought most of the public into a world they hadn’t even known existed and made them wonder what kind of parents would allow or encourage their children to enter these pageants where little girls imitate big girls.
The pageants developed confidence, talent, and poise, and many of the participants dreamed of growing up and going on to Miss America, in which Patsy and her sister Pam had both competed.
Or, same scenario, except the motive is a little deeper: JonBenet gets ornery and sassy and tells her mom she’s tired of the beauty pageants and doesn’t want to do them anymore.
JonBenet charmed everyone, and she and Patsy loved going to the pageants together, despite whatever judgments any of us might have about their value.