Word: regaling
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...essentials at the highest possible price, the only persons who come out on the best side of the bargin are the asture book buyers. No Nero judging slaves ever assumed a more majestic and disdainful attitude than the average second-hand bookstore proprietor. With a regal gesture he dismisses book after book, apparently ignorant of the fact that in his window is emblazoned the legend--"All Your books bought here". Grudgingly, almost in a philanthopic manner, he will offer six pence for a volume which will appear bravely on his stalls next fall marked one dollar--reduced from three...
...bequeath books for a mere pittance on the regal powers that be is such a dismal proceeding that it saps the strength of even those exuberant ones who have just emerged from the course in which texts were used. But they emerge to find a cold and heartless world, one dominated by Simon Legrees. Better, far better to assume the charitable and munificent pose and to give the books to the Phillipse Brooks House Library. There they will be appreciated, and the quality of gratitude will remain an unstrained...
...many types of musical comedy, ranging from the regal romance, laden with sobs, wishy-washy waltzes, and heavy footed comedians, through the blonde-chorused extravaganza with its endless array of stars, to the so-called "intimate" type, the last named is usually more dependable. Some pleasant tunes, a voice or two, a bit of fun, and a few good dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very...
...almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review scenes so excellently staged and so richly coloured that they seem parts of a never ending tapestry. Every gesture made upon the stage, and every inflection, beckons the audiences' interest on. Mannequins and dandys, cardinal and king, jeweler...
...Regal Fashion...