Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Khaddar and Kirpan. First, on a lawn overlooking the valley, there was the vice regal reception. The Congress delegation, headed by President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, wore white caps, homespun khaddar...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...imperious, volatile, high-spirited child. To her stern, regal grandmother Queen Mary, and her gentle, Scottish-born mother Queen Elizabeth, fell the task of curbing her. While others crammed her mind with languages, history and rules of statecraft, they had to strip her spirit of every inclination to caprice. The maternal admonition ran: "You are not a fairy-tale princess, but a real...
Weekends for Home. On weekends, Baruch goes back to his home at 1055 Fifth Avenue, a regal Manhattan brownstone. This five-story house, which Baruch has owned for 17 years, is a composite of his cosmopolitan tastes...
...kissed his wife good-by in suburban Mamaroneck, swung behind the wheel of a Clipper model Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...