Word: regalia
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...about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus...
...They sang like hell, but I did not see any drunks," he said. Which is all that it should be. Somebody then asked us whether the Memorial Hall Clapper was presented to the new President, along with the other regalia...
First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
Silver trumpetings, chantings of choirs, parades in regalia preceded the consistory. Pius XI delivered an allocution on the state of the world and listed his joys and sorrows since the last consistory. Solemnly he declared that, as remedy for the world's troubles, he alone had indicated "sound and solid principles, charity and justice and fundamental indestructible truths and teachings on the value of souls. . . ." He invited all nations to "consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...