Word: regalias
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...kinds of costly and delightful presents. Just before the War, for example, Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...
When exquisite Governor-General Pasquier announced that he must go to Paris, cunning plotters so dexterously tampered the ship on which he planned to sail that His Excellency actually went aboard in full regalia and settled down in his suite de luxe before it was discovered that the propellers would not work...
Riches, Royalty and Regalia were all converging upon the British West Indies last week. The visiting season for U. S. tycoons got under way. Preceded by a brand new Puss Moth plane, 27 pieces of luggage (all stamped PW in large white letters), two sets of golf clubs (one reputedly the gift of Bobby Jones), several cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin...
...Supreme Court of Panama met and conferred supreme authority to preserve order and defend the Republic upon Fire Chief Juan Antonio Guizado and his firemen, who in firefight ing regalia at once took up strategic posts in Panama City...
Natural is the Americanization of young U. S.-born Chinese. It was more difficult for their fathers to substitute suits & shirts for brilliant regalia, to adopt a new God, to learn U. S. business and banking methods. Few succeeded at all; those who did usually compromised about dress or family customs, or between the gods. One such was Lee Fook, longtime foreign-exchange official in the National City Bank, financial adviser to New York's Chinatown. He wore horn-rimmed spectacles, occidental dress, handled and ex changed Chinatown dollars sent back to relatives in China. But not until...