Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onstage, Maria looks as regal and exotic as a Russian princess; offstage, she is as American as wampum and apple pie. The daughter of a full-blooded Osage Indian and a Kansas farm girl, Maria was sent off to dancing school by her mother, at five. It was the same era that produced Shirley...
...neon jungles of Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans. Clancy was at his imperial best when the U.S. Senate's crime investigators swooped into Louisiana last month with embarrassing questions about gambling, whorehouses and bookie joints. He received the investigators with proper hauteur and met their questions with regal silence...
...guests at the Regal Hotel are eccentric to the hilt. If each were not portrayed so expertly, the film would degenerate into a tedious gallery of oddities; but the acting is splendid, and one cannot help enjoying this collection, incredible...
...which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded his subjects who was king. Lifelong outdoor man, ardent hunter, he popularized tennis in Sweden as a young man, played it until he was 88. Last January he was unable for the first time in 42 years to deliver his annual address at the opening of Parliament...