Word: regalias
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...more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty...
...with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming even more amorphous, gives up for the present the claim that a class grows...
...Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the A. E. F.'s second army, as an endorser of Lucky Strike cigarets. The General is retired from the Army but in the advertisement which went the length and breadth of the land in newspapers and magazines he appeared in full military regalia, very stern, very distinguished, declaring: "An Army Man Must Keep...
...single paper dared to mention it at all until Don Miguel was ready with his own version. Suddenly members of the so- called National Assembly?which has no parliamentary powers?heard the click of the Dictator's silver spurs and beheld him mounting the Tribune in full regalia. They saw a beefy, self-indulgent man, but withal keen-eyed and striking despite his paunch...
...usual squad of resplendent officials was at the harbor. The Hoovers said goodbye to the Maryland and a state train sped them 110 miles inland from Valparaiso to Santiago, where President Carlos Ibañiez of Chile in a generalissimo's regalia was waiting with an open carriage and four spanking bay horses. While Mr. Hoover visited the U. S. Embassy, President Ibañiez went on to the National Palace. There Mr. Hoover visited him after lunch, the first of a two-day series of meetings, partings and re-meetings...