Word: regal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joyce's Ulysses for the third time. Nobody is at all surprised when a Negro, uniformed like a doorman and blowing a bugle, heralds the approach of Mr. Jim Dandy-a fat man with no visible means of support, who says nothing for quite a while, but acts regal...
...share the hardships of his people, who now can get only a limited amount.* Last spring one of the country's most popular songs was The King is Still in London. A new number, The Day I Met His Majesty The King has been added to the regal canon...
...last week's coup was engineered by the Air Force. Not only did Air Force Chief General Dusan Simovitch take over the Government: his blue-uniformed fliers personally commanded the tanks which supported his revolt. In an air corps general's uniform King Peter II took his regal oath...
...aristocratic atavist, Alfonso never questioned his right to be a king, never ducked his regal responsibilities as he saw them. He had courage. In Paris once, when a bomb meant for him killed two of his carriage horses, he remarked that bombings were "only the risks of a king's business." In small things, too, he followed the aristocratic pattern, was a gourmet, a dandy, a lady-killer, with a pretty taste in motor cars-all with impeccable taste...
Chaperon of the 18 mannequins will be not regal Lady Willingdon but vivacious Mrs. Phoebe Tatton Brown, who was born in Argentina, has been released from a British Civil Service job. She explained that the gowns and hats her girls will wear are not for sale. South American women's-wear houses will be licensed to copy them, providing they agree to do so exclusively in British-made materials. One new British dress fabric the Empire mannequins will show is printed all over with ringing World War II phrases struck off by Prime Minister Winston Churchill...