Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided that in this year of peace & plenty it was even better than New Orleans' historic Mardi gras. Despite occasional rain, the city echoed to the sound of countless parades; of parties and balls at which Carnival satraps made glittering entrances. The Cotton King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly. So did Memphis Negroes, for whom their first citizen-blues writer W. C. Handy-tootled a horn...
...mellowing years have not relaxed all Mary's rigorous regal standards. She still will not receive a divorced person, not even her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Windsor. David himself could not break down that royal taboo when he tried two months ago. Instead, Mama, whose own taste in hats leans to the conservative, made him change his sporty green porkpie for a sober bowler...
Leonine John Lewis, still king in the jungle of U.S. collieries, made a regal gesture toward the nation. Although he had once disclaimed all responsibility for the soft coal strike (TIME, Oct. 22), at another time had called it a "lockout," the wave of his imperious paw somehow brought...
...spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
Socialism inaugurated its reign with regal pomp...