Word: regaling
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Never had Queen Mary looked more regal than when Their Majesties alighted from the Royal Train at Liverpool. Hours before more than 1,000,000 subjects of King George had turned out to pack-jam the sidewalks under a sizzling sun. They roared and thundered an ovation which seemed unique even to the most popular sovereign on earth. All day long the crowds kept it up until the King simply had to tell his people how they had made him feel. He spoke to Lord Derby and Lord Derby spoke to Liverpool newshawks and Liverpool newshawks spoke to the world...
...Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues of that sort. His real aim is to make Sterling the standard trading medium of the world, the king of currencies. Since the dollar abdicated all title to that regal role Mr. Chamberlain's task has been much eased. Last week the Canadian dollar was not pegged to Sterling as were the currencies of all other Dominions. Currencies of the following countries now move in close sympathy with Sterling: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil...
What happened in that interval has been written about and told many times, with many variations. Two years ago M-G-M decided that a story based on Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder...
...dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither ebb nor flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial decor neglected, no outlet for photographic ingenuity closed...
...kingdom," ruled by His Serene Highness salty old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, is the notoriously high cost of supporting a Habsburg Court. Thousands of Hungarian Legitimists would like to restore "Little Otto," 20-year-old son of their late King Karl, but they know the extravagance of his regal mother Zita, fear she would insist that the State lavishly support dozens of penniless Habsburg archdukes. Last week in ancient Debrecsen, famed today for its tobacco-pipes, sausages and soap, Legitimists staged a monster pro-Otto rally several times disturbed by anti-Otto students who shouted "Long Live Horthy...