Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers on whether the Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, called a committee to arrange for an October wedding in Westminster Abbey, complete with open landaus, guards and 500 guests...
Welling Tears. Old (75), coal-black Dom Pedro VII had little liking for official functions. He preferred cruising around Rome in a taxi with a couple of photographers. But when the time came for him to meet the Pope, he was determined to carry it off in regal style. Said he: "I shall be the first of my family, which dates from the Pharaohs, to meet the Pope...
Richard A. Green, of Lowell House and Trenton, New Jersey, has been appointed chairman of the permanent '47 Album committee, the '47 Class Committee announced last night. Herbert F. Regal, of Kirkland House and Brookline, will serve as vice-chairman...
...committee issued an appeal for all men who served on the temporary Album committee to come out for the new staff. Said Regal, "On a temporary basis we have been able to organize only a skeleton framework of a staff. We invite any Class member to contribute his talent...
...give an added regal polish, there were lessons in French (from a French countess), German, art, and dancing. As time went on, the Vice-Provost of Eton, erudite Clarence Henry Kennett ("Shee-Kay") Marten (later knighted and promoted to Provost), was called in to brush up the Princess' constitutional history...