Word: regaling
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...bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
From his sufficiently regal abode, the Belvedere Palace, Pilsudski decided to amuse himself a little longer by playing cat and mice with the disorganized and virtually impotent Sejm (Parliament...
Strenuous Days. Her Majesty no sooner reached the Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
...only the pope remains cloistered. Kings, queens, saints, quacks, and fiction writers swell the waiting list at Ellis Island. Though their critics tell them "fair is foul; they continue empiricists. And in so doing they lose the charm of regal remoteness to take their common place in the Sunday supplements of the prints with the retired wives of senile plutocrats, the defenders of ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie...
...third class travels, camping, scrubbing. At the Hague the palace occupied by Princess Juliana and Queen Wilhelmina is an unadorned whitewashed wooden house. Not so the residence of the Queen Mother. There pomp abides. Immaculate sentries pace before her door. When she rides out her mien is regal...