Word: regaling
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...Howard papers. Jack Howard reached his present eminence by right of royal succession: he is the only son of Roy W. Howard, the late E. W. Scripps's longtime partner, who is still active at 79 as Scripps-Howard's executive committee chairman. But about the only regal touches that Jack Howard permits himself are a military mustache (like his father's) and a taste for resplendent dress (noisy suits, shrieking ties and shirts). He rules lightly, exercising his control largely by critiquing the editors' monthly reports and by visiting each paper once or twice...
...Near Richmond, and not to be confused with Virginia's south-central Prince Edward County, which has closed all public schools to evade integration. Virginia's other regal counties: Prince William, Princess Anne, King George, King William, King and Queen...
...Points in Common." Nor was that the central government's only worry. Fifty miles outside Leopoldville, secessionist-minded Albert Kalonji, a self-styled "king" who takes his regal status so seriously that he once employed a proxy handshaker, escaped from Luzumu prison, where he was sent last April to serve a 2½-year term for torturing political rivals. With Kalonji safely back in his diamond-rich stronghold of South Kasai, where he is protected by a private gendarmerie of 2.000, Leopoldville had reason to fear that he might emulate his friend Tshombe and once again attempt a pullout...
Casting about for a regal type for a walk-on part in the film version of the famed Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures oj Nils, the producers gave the royal palace a "call. The scene required a noble-looking gentleman to walk through his chamber onto a balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden...
...photographer chasing along the bank as the duke's royal yawl Bloodhound maneuvered through locks near Fort William, Scotland. "Do you want a bloody picture of my left earhole?" he cried. At least the Scottish edition of the Daily Herald did, next day ran a picture of the regal left ear along with a verbatim account of the royal remarks...