Word: regal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Anthem. Police arrested four Socialists for hissing, five Flemings for leafleting. Born a German, the able Queen is considered pro-French by rabid sectionalists who want "Flanders for the Flemings!" Whether she really enjoyed it or not, Queen Elisabeth sat through a long Flemish opera, alert, gracious, regal...
With almost regal pomp Chancellor Hitler next opened Berlin's automobile show. Disregarding the fact that the German State railroads are one of the Government's most important sources of revenue, Handsome Adolf promised Government assistance to the motor industry, postulated: "The railway is too impersonal in that it restricts individual freedom. Today the automobile and the airplane [invariably used by Herr Hitler in preference to trains] constitute the most perfect instruments of transportation...
Fierce old Tzu Hsi, crafty, foreigner-hating Dowager Empress, used to say that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose own girl babies had been conveniently drowned...
...Prince was reputed to be a friend indeed. He was loyal and polished. What if he did sell paintings from the municipal museum walls, shower the country with rubber checks, run up staggering accounts at the swankiest stores? He did these things with a regal elegance that seemed to remove the sting common to such machinations. How such a figure could descend to the tawdry level of plain grubbing seems incomprehensible...