Word: regalization
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...beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped to a more than regal abode, an historic tent used by the Magyar conquerors of Hungary in 900 A. D., now the property of Count Teleki and loaned by him to the Jamboree...
...Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner...
...Barbarina" shows the period in its opulent, cultivated perfection, Frederick the Great in his strongest and weakest moments. It is for those who have regal tastes and regal minds, those who admire Baroque architecture, early eighteenth century music, and Voltairesque morals...
...Royal Anthem. Police arrested four Socialists for hissing, five Flemings for leafleting. Born a German, the able Queen is considered pro-French by rabid sectionalists who want "Flanders for the Flemings!" Whether she really enjoyed it or not, Queen Elisabeth sat through a long Flemish opera, alert, gracious, regal...
With almost regal pomp Chancellor Hitler next opened Berlin's automobile show. Disregarding the fact that the German State railroads are one of the Government's most important sources of revenue, Handsome Adolf promised Government assistance to the motor industry, postulated: "The railway is too impersonal in that it restricts individual freedom. Today the automobile and the airplane [invariably used by Herr Hitler in preference to trains] constitute the most perfect instruments of transportation...