Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into that apartment regal...
...less regal but more productive. She uses a ramshackle, ghost-town U.S. post office as headquarters, tears between her three mountain mines in a secondhand $55 down-payment Ford, wears dirty trousers and wildly striped, tight-fitting sweaters (see cut), bosses her 45 employes like a regular miner. She also produces chrome ore. Her Joe River mine turns out 20 tons every day. Last week she opened her Ladd mine, put more steam behind construction at the McGuffy mine. Thus her production soon will be much higher, although she has already sold 3,200 tons to the Government-20% more...
...first two rounds the caddies wore the players' numbers. Then Tam President George S. May insisted that no player could tee off for the third round without his number. Joe Kirkwood, famed trick-shot wizard who is accustomed to touring the world in regal style, angrily refused. So did Tommy Armour, onetime U.S. and British Open champion. Armour retired; Kirkwood was disqualified...
...minutes after Queen Wilhelmina was scheduled to arrive, at 1:10 o'clock, the waiting throng heard a roar of motorcycles as the vanguard of the regal entourage rolled through Johnson Gate and pulled up in front of Harvard Hall. The Queen drove up in a large black White House limousine, followed by a carful of bodyguards...
...Comment by a nameless observer on the regal bearing of RKO Actor-Producer-Writer-Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane): "There, but for the grace of God goes...