Word: regalias
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...Southern Theatre was heard in London from the British officer who took care of Emperor Haile Selassie when he was in Alexandria last month on his way to rejoin his people. The officer took the black-fuzzed little Emperor to the former Italian Yacht Club to change into military regalia. This was accomplished in a lavatory, accompanied by a drink of confiscated Italian wine...
...sounded like someone shucking corn. He proclaimed: "You'll hear me called a New Dealer and a Democrat. If there's one thing I have done it's fight the New Deal. Why, some of these other fellows who call themselves Republicans were selling off the regalia while I was defending the lodge." To a statement from 40 Republican Congressmen which hinted that he was "unavailable" because he was a neophyte Republican, onetime Democrat Willkie retorted in a favorite phrase: "That's a lot of spinach." He had made no commitments,. he was making none...
...comedy in Chicago, it turns into stark drama under the impact of British manners and manors. Silky, once a carefree, moronic young mobster, snapping rubber bands at a pair of shapely legs (their tantalizing owner never steps into the picture), goes to his death (by hanging) in the regalia and with the dignity of a peer of the realm...
...Henry strode ashore (in borrowed regalia) to wreathe Montevideo's monument to General José Artigas, hero of Uruguay's war for independence in 1814-20, and to give the press his version of the historic Battle of Punta del Este...
...hats, morning coats, decorations-all the regalia of a brilliant diplomatic party last week adorned the bodies of virtually all of France's Cabinet Ministers, most of her home diplomats, many of her social leaders, in one of the gloomiest caverns in Paris-the Gare du Nord. The notables had gathered to say good-by to a good friend, wit, gourmet, an artisan of tact, a monocle-bearing, well-dressed Briton, Sir Eric Phipps, 64, retiring from the British diplomatic service after two years as Ambassador to France and after 30-odd in the service of his Kings...