Word: regalness
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Fierce old Tzu Hsi, crafty, foreigner-hating Dowager Empress, used to say that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose own girl babies had been conveniently drowned...
...Prince was reputed to be a friend indeed. He was loyal and polished. What if he did sell paintings from the municipal museum walls, shower the country with rubber checks, run up staggering accounts at the swankiest stores? He did these things with a regal elegance that seemed to remove the sting common to such machinations. How such a figure could descend to the tawdry level of plain grubbing seems incomprehensible...
...execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably is-a resourceful compendium of dignified and exciting hokum. Good shot: Rasputin ordering the Tsarevitch to look through a microscope...
...intend to carry on all my official duties in Gaelic," said Seneschal Ua Buachalla, "and the former Vice-Regal Lodge [official residence of the Governor General] will probably become a Gaelic College-either that or a hospital...