Word: regaling
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...mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress Ouspenskaya stole the picture. As the barefooted but regal Maharani of The Rains Came, she does it again...
...account of it commented on what a rest it must have been to them to stare at this magnificent, regal mountain splendor, unwatched, after consistently playing the other role. It concluded with the remark that Mount Donald which towers over Field was cloud-capped during the visit and did not uncover for "God Save the King...
...less tall than they expected (towering Sir Ronald Lindsay dwarfed him), that his smiling muscles stood out rigidly, that he looked young, fit and earnest. Elizabeth was the perfect Queen: eyes a snapping blue, chin tilted confidently, two fingers raised in a greeting as girlish as it was regal. Her long-handled parasol seemed out of a story book. She wore an "unselfish" off-the-face hat and the parasol failed to save her Scottish skin from Southern sunburn. Washington was 94° that day. Along the processional route, 500 people collapsed. So did 60 Girl Scouts, waiting...
...moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping on the right side of the State Department...
...arises at seven, has an hour's stiff exercise, tries to get to work before his three secretaries. Barrel-chested and haughty, he pads about his swank offices in the Empire State Building or another set of offices at the fair with regal pomp (stenographers greet him: "Good morning, Mr. President"). Once a week he confers with a management council, whose three chief members are Vice Presidents Howard A. Flanigan, John Philip Hogan and Stephen F. Voorhees. Mr. Hogan is the fair's chief engineer, Mr. Voorhees its chief architect. Howard Flanigan is as close as anyone gets...