Word: regales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus credit plasma. A sprinkling of embarrassing questions began. As they sat in the Hotel...
...bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to feel real regal at the annual Imperial Ball, sponsored for charity by Chrysler...
...were marvels to behold, but none greater than the international set's large-hearted partygiver, Elsa Maxwell, 73, bedecked with such garnish as one of the world's biggest rocks (a 337-k. sapphire) in her guise of Russia's Empress Catherine the Great. Also gone regal was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, playing her greatest nonsinging role as Hatshepsut, an 18th Dynasty Queen of Egypt. Prattled Columnist Maxwell just before the ball: "Maria and I, gentle as ewe lambs, will be side by side in the Parade of Empresses. What an amusing ending...
...Robert Fitzgerald translation without wounding it. The cast was competent at worst, and particularly fortunate in having Robert Goodier as Creon. And as should be, the hero was Oedipus. Canada's young (27) Christopher Plummer was a kingly king-handsome in bearing, condescending in modesty, impetuous in anger, regal even in his sudden descent to the living death decreed for the man who slew his father, lay with his mother and could no more than any other mortal "make the gods do more than the gods will." Through TV, perhaps millions were able for the first time...
Only in his declining years did luxury-loving El Greco's fortunes dwindle, and his regal apartments become threadbare and bleak. But in August 1612, El Greco, then 71, roused himself for a final great undertaking, the towering, 11½-ft. altarpiece, The Adoration of the Shepherds, painted to decorate his own tomb in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In it, the Christ Child becomes a glowing pearl, illuminating with otherworldly radiance the three adoring shepherds and St. Joseph in his blue tunic and yellow cloak. Presiding over the scene that soars heavenward like a mighty Gloria...