Word: regalias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two acts, acted in the jury room, the spirit languishes. For Mrs. Fiske's absurd first-act character becomes a smart, dominating woman, and what was almost wicked satire becomes burlesque. The jury is shown in impromptu sleeping regalia. Two lovers are interrupted at their devotions by the snores of a red-headed Irishwoman. There are two crusty moralists, a conventionally exploited Scotsman, a maundering poet-all the stencils of farce, with a brace of beauties thrown in for good measure...
...even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...
...more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty...
...with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming even more amorphous, gives up for the present the claim that a class grows...
...Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the A. E. F.'s second army, as an endorser of Lucky Strike cigarets. The General is retired from the Army but in the advertisement which went the length and breadth of the land in newspapers and magazines he appeared in full military regalia, very stern, very distinguished, declaring: "An Army Man Must Keep...