Word: regalias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undaunted by the bared fangs of "huskies" a la Jack London, the glaring orbs of crouching timber wolves, the "heap big Injun" chiefs whittling with wicked knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...
...that she did not know her husband was murdered a year later (1867). Mercifully unconscious of his death during the 60 years of her madness (up to her death at 86, last week) she was always expecting the Emperor Maximilian to reurn to her, would sometimes don court regalia in expectation of his coming, and say, "He will come soon. He will come very soon...
...means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely no doubt but that the mob members wore the official robes with official insignia...
...William H. Adams, onetime cowboy, announced that he would not wear full dress at his inaugural ball on Jan. 11. His friends explained that he was afraid of catching his spurs in the coattails. "I never compromise with principle," said Mr. Adams, who is pleased to wear his cowpunching regalia whenever possible. "I never have worn full dress, and I never will, if it's what I think...
Further unconfirmed rumors reported the mobilization of six Fascist legions in war regalia along the Italo-French frontier between Modane and Ventimiglia. Though alarmists descried war clouds, the force mobilized numbered less than 9,000 men, and seemed occupied merely with rather elaborate drills and war games...