Word: regalness
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...films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King who, as played by Roland Young, is an elegantly frowzy little monarch with no regal pretensions beyond that of giggling quietly at his own wisecracks. Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed for failing to salute her. The King's marriage causes his subjects to denounce him as a buffoon, but they do not become really...
Throne Speech, In his gilded coach & six George V clattered to Parliament, wrapped himself in regal robes, clapped on the Empire's sparkling crown, grasped his sceptre and seated himself on Brit ain's Throne in the House of Lords. Standing in a subway crush behind the bar of the House of Lords, eager M. P.'s squashed each other in their efforts to hear His Majesty read a speech written by Scot MacDonald: "My Lords, Mem bers of the House of Commons. . . . My Government is giving particularly close attention to . . . the approaching Disarmament Conference...
...Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
Java of course is the chief Dutch possession, and Batavia is the capital of Vice-regal Governor General Jonkheer A. C. De Graeff (he recently visited the U. S. unnoticed). But on the Pittsburgh's route Sumatra came before Java and the Davises first landed on Dutch soil at the port for Medan...
...Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...