Word: regalness
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...spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
Socialism inaugurated its reign with regal pomp...
Khaddar and Kirpan. First, on a lawn overlooking the valley, there was the vice regal reception. The Congress delegation, headed by President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, wore white caps, homespun khaddar...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...imperious, volatile, high-spirited child. To her stern, regal grandmother Queen Mary, and her gentle, Scottish-born mother Queen Elizabeth, fell the task of curbing her. While others crammed her mind with languages, history and rules of statecraft, they had to strip her spirit of every inclination to caprice. The maternal admonition ran: "You are not a fairy-tale princess, but a real...