Word: regalias
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Next the Royal regalia was brought to the robing room of the House of Lords. Shortly before noon the King & Queen drove over from Buckingham Palace, were assisted into their gear and began their solemn, stately walk to the two gold thrones in the House of Lords. Once a year His Majesty opens Parliament for the excellent reason that he has closed it, and this salutary closing (a formality performed by the Lord Chancellor) kills hundreds of bills which have not yet passed both Houses, thus clearing the Parliamentary decks for action...
...When the mirth of the Immortals had subsided, General Weygand spoke a few words on the spur of the moment. As academy tradition demanded, he eulogized the late Immortal whose seat he was tak ing, Marshal Joffre. Paradoxically General Weygand was wearing when he took this seat the Academic regalia of Marshal Foch, enemy of Joffre, patron of Weygand. Strutting out after the ceremony in his laced & looped jacket, General Weygand clapped on the plumed hat that went with it, was jocularly congratulated on the perfect fit of his Foch togs...
Luther gets a girl for himself in Battle-burg, makes himself there a homesick kind of home. All day and every day for weeks the Tohannocks and the Hehonees stand in full Indian regalia in the capitol lobby for the assemblymen to see. All day, back home at Ball's Wharf, Sarah Sprouse, whose husband John has died, dreams of Luther. Finally she begins to write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature...
...vest, his lush black tie, his florid face and droning voice had passed forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia, "Tom-Tom" Heflin was back upon the Senate floor, smashing a hamlike fist into a pink palm,' ranting and roaring as of old, crying, "My God, Senators, think of that...
...sworn to him by Irish Free State M. P.'s? Many a U. S. admirer of his Majesty is sure that he does not care a snap. Last week this U. S. opinion led Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to print a picture of His Majesty in full regalia with the caption...