Word: regalization
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...Solemnly, Mrs. Perry related the deceased's virtues and exploits, beginning with the day in 1913 when she bought him, "the cunningest" French poodle puppy, in San Francisco; tearfully ending with her "dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided by veterinaries and a full-time nurse; his decline, his last look, his death. . . . The watchers filed behind Mrs. Perry to an ornate marble mausoleum on the Perry estate; bowed their heads during the rich lady's last farewell...
...plot of the play deals with the enmity between Prince Hal, later Henry V, and Hotspur, a fiery noble with regal aspirations. Hal is a useless drinking companion of Falstaff and his band of blustering pickpockets. When civil war breaks out, Hal puts off his dissipation and kills Hotspur on the field of battle. Hal was played, intermittently well, by Basil Sydney, and Hotspur, for about the same values, by Philip Merivale. Peggy Wood, William Courtleigh, Blanche Ring, Rosamond Pinchot (as Prince John) were among the notables...
...Tsar's four daughters all possessed luxuriant hair, clear delicate complexions, and a carriage and manner unaffectedly regal. Anastasia, a girl of 17 at the time of her reported assassination, was considered a distinctly handsome young woman hors de boudoir...
...beginning, too nervous to play well and too wary to divert with any spectacular activities the people who since eight in the morning had poured into Cannes along the highroad from Nice and Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks, she had won her advantage from her opponent's errors. Then Helen Wills, driving at the corners, volleying and smashing, took three games in succession. Hence Lenglen's demand for the amber glass. It contained brandy and water...
...seated in all his royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture gives the general effect of "much cry and little wool...