Word: regalias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice Chancellor Joseph Wells of Oxford University put polishing touches to an address in choicest Latin, donned historic regalia, had the students summoned before him and convoked them for the term with the following among other words (translated...
Through the streets of Eastbourne (England) there passed in full regalia, last week, a procession of 2,000 clergymen-bishops, deans, vicars and curates-which recalled the days of Cardinal Wolsey, famed and hospitable entertainer of Henry VIII...
...buried with full honors by the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan, of which she was a member. Six masked Klansmen in regalia were her pallbearers...
...trunks and closets and hoodmakers' shops, last week, came bright regalia. There was brushing of gowns and pressing of hems, dusting of tassels and fitting on of mortarboards. When U. S. pedagogy, its apostles, disciples and the honored stranger within its gates, takes the platform, this month, to set seals and make distinctions, how shall the colors of its pomp be read...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...