Word: regaling
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...Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
After decades of crocodile groans by celebrities arriving in Manhattan harbor about how impossible it is to avoid "unwelcome American publicity and the terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White...
...patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection featuring crown-shaped hats, regal brocades and embroideries, crown motifs on buttons...
...Ethiopia, had just upped Marshal Badoglio from the administrative office of Viceroy of Ethiopia to the aristocratic, hereditary dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly speech in praise of Fascist works in general...