Word: regalia
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This weekend, most of the campus observed the biennial tradition of journeying down to Yale for The Game. Bedecked in Crimson regalia and perhaps even tipsy from preemptive victory celebrations, students packed into shuttles for the tortuous trip down the Turnpike and Interstate 91 to New Haven, eagerly anticipating the pomp and circumstance that is our proudest piece of Harvard mythology...
There are no hooded sweatshirts emblazoned with “HELENA, ARKANSAS” for sale around here. I still just wear my cozy Lowell House regalia that occupies a solid third of a shelf in my closet. I once wore these clothes to Stein Club, but these Thursday nights, I’m not signing up for my sixth karaoke entry. I’m usually writing lesson plans for the next morning...
...came of age in the last years of an era of great English portraiture, of Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, when the British gentry were eager to be commemorated in the full regalia of the ruling classes. The elderly Reynolds was still president of the Royal Academy when the 14-year-old Turner was admitted to the Academy's school. But Turner would have been a disaster as a portraitist. He could draw as well as the best of them. In watercolor he could produce something like molecular detail, notwithstanding that one of his typical techniques...
...laser treatment or go somewhere else." Chester Burrows, the National Party's law and order spokesman and member for Wanganui, has indicated that he'll try to introduce a bill to Parliament that will give local councils the right to ban gangs and gang regalia in cities. King thinks it unlikely the bill will succeed. She favors U.K.-style anti-social behavior orders to curb gang activity...
...have graduated to the big league. KBZ was formed in 2003, when a long-established motorcycle gang, the Tribesmen, were recruiting local teenagers to help deal drugs from tinny houses. Now KBZ's 50-plus members range in age from 15 to 25, wear yellow and black gang regalia, often featuring the word "Mojo" (the name of a deceased gang member) or their motto "F___ the world" on their clothes. The gang pay regular visits to Mojo's grave, where, says the report, "they drink and make a nuisance of themselves...