Word: regalias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...
...wildest riding buckaroos that ever forked a Texas bronco right here in New Orleans." -(New Orleans Item, in a story on an American Legion rodeo.) " State's Attorney Crowe and his staff of picked assistants, assigned to prosecute the murderers of little Bobby Franks, jumped into their fighting regalia last night and launched a double-fisted attack upon the defense." -Chicago Tribune. " There is one bootlegger in Oakland who will think twice hereafter before he calls prospective customers on the telephone. " Chief McSorley answered his private telephone yesterday and was dumbfounded when a voice asked if he wanted those...
...Sims portrait shows Britain's monarch in full regalia, with sceptre and sword, seated on his throne. It idealizes and refines the not-unlined face. It gives His Majesty dainty, tapering legs. It makes the fingers, actually the short, muscular digits of a sport-loving country gentleman, appear long and willowy...
...Creager of Texas went away somewhat discomfited. But another Texan went away feeling much better. He was Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, a dentist by profession. Dr. Evans thrives in the regalia of Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
Those peripheral penmen whose noses are keen for "human interest", are finding the scent at Cleveland faint and cold. Kirby, cartoonist for the World, has vented his disappointment by picturing the typical defegate masquerading in mid-winter regalia and shivering against a background of icebergs, snow and aurora borealis...