Word: regaling
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...India the Viceroy preserves, if possible, a more regal dignity than George V himself. Men and maharajahs do not sit down in Lord Irwin's presence without his leave, do not speak until the Viceroy has spoken. But last week dignity went by the board when small, brown St. Gandhi clattered up to the Vice-regal Palace at New Delhi in a cheap American automobile and alighted wearing a blanket to which was pinned a dollar watch. As his tiny guest had stipulated, the excessively tall Viceroy met him "as a man, not Viceroy," and St. Gandhi, looking...
...wish to call to your attention an error in a recent issue of TIME. You stated, under Great Britain caption, that Prince George was the youngest son of Britain's king. Not Prince George (b. 1902), but young, almost-unknown Prince John, is the latest regal son. Press-evading Prince John was born in 1905, is handsome, unmarried, keeps his name out of the newspapers (and print as a whole) even more studiously than does the Duke of Connaught...
...lira gold piece ($19.30) Sears on the reverse a full length figure of Christ as King. He holds the usual emblems of regal power : the sceptre and the globe. At his feet cherubs support a crown. About his head is a halo. The inscription: Stato Citta Vaticano...
...played courtly tit-tat-to with Queen Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol he was recently made a Marshal of Rumania. To widowed Mme Vintila Bratianu, His Majesty wired condolence, praising the "energy and labor" of her husband. His funeral was almost regal. Three special trains conveyed the body to Bucharest. Relays of priests held a funeral service at each important town en route...
...bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main the will of Poet d'Annunzio continues...