Word: regalia
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...like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read to the awed stripling a list of imposing regulations. He was informed that any attempt at desertion would be punished by a firing squad at daybreak. The threat sufficed; for two years, John Phillips Sousa remained a fearfully earnest apprentice in the marine corps band...
...galleries with a "Howzit, Ed?" They breathed easier as Lord Bessborough sat clown on the throne. Lady Bessborough sat at his left. Behind her stood the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, last-minute choice of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett for Government leader. On either side in full regalia stood representatives of the church and diplomatic corps, white-wigged Supreme Court. Black Rod (Parliamentary usher) left to sum mon the Commons, banged thrice on their door, bowed thrice when he entered, thrice when he left. The Governor General cleared his throat, read a short Speech from the Throne...
...showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...
Married. Prince Monolulu of Africa, turf tipster; and a Miss Nellie Amelia Adkind, white woman; in London. Prince Monolulu wore his royal regalia, including hat embellished with three two-foot ostrich plumes, embroidered sash, short jacket on which were traced five symbolic horseshoes...
...falls before Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week...