Word: regal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably is-a resourceful compendium of dignified and exciting hokum. Good shot: Rasputin ordering the Tsarevitch to look through a microscope...
...intend to carry on all my official duties in Gaelic," said Seneschal Ua Buachalla, "and the former Vice-Regal Lodge [official residence of the Governor General] will probably become a Gaelic College-either that or a hospital...
Omaha also has a Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build...
...Standard Oil. He was the Prince of International Harvester. She was a demure little blonde, with a high forehead, grey eyes and a mass of ringlets under her hat. She swam, skated, rode a horse and bicycle, but preferred to read and study. The newspapers wrote of a regal wedding but actually it was a quiet, private ceremony in a parlor of Manhattan's old Buckingham Hotel. The first two years of their life together were spent in the quiet little river town of Council Bluffs. Iowa, and it was not until the McCormicks moved to Chicago that her imperiousness...
Conference Agenda. Canadian Premier Bennett, a Conservative closely allied with Conservatives of maximum wealth in Great Britain, was personally responsible for bringing to Canada his Big-Business friend the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General. Lord Bessborough is the first vice-regal occupant of Rideau Hall to have been chosen by George V on the advice of a Canadian premier. He is the fourth Irish peer to be Canada's Governor General. As a businessman Lord Bessborough was said last week to have collaborated in drafting the "Provisional Agenda" which Premier Bennett made ready for the Conference after consulting...