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Word: regal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 90 miles (air line) southwest of Grand Coulee Dam, is about 1,200 feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...stateliness of Wagnerian opera. For Her Majesty and all she stood for it might be Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods"), but she was far from "broken and weeping" as some dispatches reported. Just as they were being printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Night | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Apprentice Ambassador | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

After decades of crocodile groans by celebrities arriving in Manhattan harbor about how impossible it is to avoid "unwelcome American publicity and the terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen of Sorrows | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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