Word: regale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other way; that the difficult, hard, controversial issues of the day should be avoided and the people should not be told our views upon them; that a long vacation trip should be taken admiring mountains and lakes and rivers and flowers and crops and livestock. These riders of regal reaction hold that a position of photogenic availability should be maintained until such time as a key group of their men, with delegates in their pockets, make hard, tough, secret deals for a nomination...
...dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear voice, questions about his career...
...take at the Regal, Jackie had to pay for the rest of his company, including a twelve-piece jazz band, a puppet act, and a comic who ate cigarettes. But he still had a lot left for himself...
...wrote him a friendly challenge: "Don't just visit New York and Washington, like most visitors. Come on out here and see the real U.S." Like most visitors, Arthur Christiansen went to New York and Washington-and to Hollywood, where the cocktail parties were "regal, magnificent." But last week the editor of the world's largest daily newspaper (circ. 3,856,375) paid a visit to his friend Dick Vesey, now a University of Wisconsin journalism student, at his home town of Plymouth...
...thinkers: zoos in London and Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took...