Word: regales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself sponsored the exhibition, selected 91 of Japan's most cherished paintings and sculptures from the 6th century to the 19th. They were all masterpieces, all precisely naturalistic and all as traditional as tea. On opening day, 25,000 people crushed into the National Gallery to see a regal, 8th century statue of the Buddhist saint Shuho-o, paintings of black-faced thunder gods, delicately colored trees, birds and flowers. A popular favorite: a dryly humorous Scroll of Animals (1100 A.D.) which shows monkeys, rabbits, and frogs playing like merry children. Next stages on the show's tour...
...Social Whirl. She will inherit a rigid and taxing social schedule into which she will be initiated at once. She must appear, smiling as befits a public darling, at not one but two inaugural balls. Her costume, however, will be far less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones...
LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, Spain's best bullfighter, came last week to conquer Mexico. As he appeared in the door of his plane, Dominguin gave the airport crowd a small, arrogant smile and a regal wave. Two burly bodyguards closed in beside him and a motorcycle escort whisked him off to his hotel...
Most of the darts were aimed at the prizewinning coin design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should...
Then came the ferocious, just lamented mascot and last in line is today's regal beast...