Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less tall than they expected (towering Sir Ronald Lindsay dwarfed him), that his smiling muscles stood out rigidly, that he looked young, fit and earnest. Elizabeth was the perfect Queen: eyes a snapping blue, chin tilted confidently, two fingers raised in a greeting as girlish as it was regal. Her long-handled parasol seemed out of a story book. She wore an "unselfish" off-the-face hat and the parasol failed to save her Scottish skin from Southern sunburn. Washington was 94° that day. Along the processional route, 500 people collapsed. So did 60 Girl Scouts, waiting...
...arises at seven, has an hour's stiff exercise, tries to get to work before his three secretaries. Barrel-chested and haughty, he pads about his swank offices in the Empire State Building or another set of offices at the fair with regal pomp (stenographers greet him: "Good morning, Mr. President"). Once a week he confers with a management council, whose three chief members are Vice Presidents Howard A. Flanigan, John Philip Hogan and Stephen F. Voorhees. Mr. Hogan is the fair's chief engineer, Mr. Voorhees its chief architect. Howard Flanigan is as close as anyone gets...
...Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, stood at attention aboard a bedecked Siamese cruiser as it slid up to Bangkok's water front. Popping his stork neck under the traditional nine-tiered umbrella, symbol of regal power, King Ananda strode down the red-carpeted gangplank to greet the three royal Regents who have ruled in his absence. Strong Man Phya Phahol judiciously kept in the background. Along the city streets, as His Majesty jounced and saluted on his way to the royal palace, 500,000 of his flat...
...whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen...
Grenville C. Bramen, Frederic S. Dean Jr., John E. D'Errico, John W. Quinlan Jr., Harry D. Reber Jr., A. Regal, R. Scully, John S. Stillman, Andrew M. Wales, Lester H. Watson...