Word: regalias
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...next batch of natives, the brave and cannibalistic Maoris of New Zealand, breathed fire. In full fighting regalia, they would yell from their war canoes: "Come to us, come on shore and we will kill you all with our patoo-patoos!" While the Maoris did not brain any of Cook's men with their patoo-patoos (war clubs), Cook got rattled for a rare moment during a sudden Maori foray and ordered his men to open fire. Four of the tribesmen were killed, to the kindly Cook's lasting regret...
...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...professed to have long known that Lawrence was illegitimate, but based their objections on the propriety of saying so while his 93-year-old mother was still alive. Most of them also conceded that Lawrence was an incorrigible ham, who loved to posture and pose in his outlandish Arab regalia and often embroidered the truth. "Finding they wouldn't believe it," Lawrence himself once wrote a friend, "I told them lies." The ire of Aldington's critics was directed far less at the existence of sordid facts concerning their hero than at the brutal and relentless way Aldington...
...seats and lining the sides, alternately stamping their feet in time with the music and chanting "We want Roy." On the platform there were three rows of chairs filled with various dignitaries. Several American Legion men and their Women's Auxiliary were there, all in full regalia. The President of the group finally arose and began the program: "Ladies and Gentlemen and Citizens for McCarthy . . ." This produced a three minute standing ovation...
Ears & Guts. At 11:30 that night, 22 ministers somberly gathered at the Elysee. They were just in time to hear a full report on a cavalry officers' banquet held that same evening in the Bois de Boulogne. There, in splendid regalia, Marshal Alphonse Juin had made another speech -even more mocking than before. He did not take back a word about EDC. Marshal Juin, a graduate of St. Cyr (where he was a classmate of Charles de Gaulle), was utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international...