Word: regaling
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...Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy. GE's lily, which owes its existence to Engineer Chester Newell Moore, is non-dehiscent. Mr. Moore was experimenting with the effects of x-rays on genes and chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ-plasm). He irradiated 75 bulbs of regal lilies. Nothing noteworthy happened to the first generation, but among the second-generation freaks were two flowers whose anthers shriveled without releasing their pollen. From these two Engineer Moore obtained a true-breeding strain...
...Strawbridge & Clothier prides itself on a long list of innovations. It sent out the first typewritten bills in 1900. It dared to stop giving discounts to clergymen in 1919. It was Philadelphia's first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt an efficiency filing system by which its 125,000 charge accounts are photographed with a motion picture camera and the films stored in a single cabinet. And last week Strawbridge & Clothier made national news...
...that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal box until time for the main race, when she scuttled off to the judges' stand...
...place to President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp. with $365,358 or $1,000,98 per day. Some were surprised to discover that Super-Salesman Watson has only $1,000,000* invested in the huge company which he created and from which he draws so regal a stipend...
...graceful and regal bearing...