Word: regaling
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...white, high-necked, long-sleeved, as Vatican etiquette demands. Half shrouded by a white lace mantilla, her regal head carried a proud coronet, and upon the black cordon of Malta across her bosom depended in eight strands the fabulous Pearls of Savoy, huge as pale butter balls...
...clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted by one Herman Schulenberg, 53, Milwaukee mechanic. Four years ago his cancerous larynx was removed. Last week Joseph Clark Beck, his Chicago surgeon, led him before the Fellows. First the man rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat...
...that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. King shook hands as absolute equals, colleagues under the Crown. Loud pealed the carillon in the great Gothic peace tower of Canada's Parliament House. Smartly Scot MacDonald was driven to be received by the personal representative of George V in Canada, vice-regal Viscount Willingdon (salary $50,000*). After luncheon chubby, jovial astute Mr. King suggested a motor ride, 25 miles out into the Gatineau hills to "Kingsmere," his country home. There, as with President Hoover beside the rushing Rapidan, Mr. MacDonald found an open hearth, a crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that...
...shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...
...Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard. Young Sister Elizabeth talks about sex right out in the open and vents a precocious materialism. She and her mother...