Mr. Kurien brought together a menagerie of first-rate raconteurs, from the impishly grinning guitarist Carlton Kitto to the cigar-puffing Bombay bon vivant Stanley Pinto, to Violet Smith, the owner of the Fairlawn Hotel, who regally declares that in 1940s Calcutta, "there was no unpleasant music, only jazz".
Mr. Weiller, who counted the rich and famous among his guests, was known for entertaining so regally at the house that Greta Garbo dubbed him "Paul-Louis XIV".
Mr. Brant still owns many major works by Mr. Koons, including "Puppy," a lovable 43-foot-tall terrier fashioned from more than 70,000 flowering plants that is regally positioned on his property in Greenwich.
It still felt kind of good to watch her regally sit down on that testosterone-fueled Iron Throne so long denied a Queen. .
To compensate for our missing canine wingmen this trip, we made friends with a few dogs on the beach, including a white bulldog that regally surveyed the wave-skimming patrols of pelicans in the morning.
So goes the Quechua legend of "Mama" Tungurahua, the hot and bothered volcano that regally rises from lushly-forested terrain about a three-hour' drive south from Ecuador's capital city of Quito.
Trailed by bemused locals, the King shops for groceries, goes to the post office and perches regally on an old sofa that's been left at the curb.
Serginho also gave Brazil another way of playing in emergencies: at 1-1 against Russia, for example, Eder speared over an angled cross that Serginho won regally at the far post, heading it down for Zico to stab wide from four yards.
The most impressive taxidermy in Art of the Hunt is a full-body mount by Dawayne Dewey of a tremendously large bighorn sheep ram sitting regally among rocks and brush that are meant to resemble his natural habitat.
In the course of his research, he learned that Pontormo ate regally in the presence of the Medicis, but that the meals he prepared in his own quarters, where a side of pancetta perpetually hung from the ceiling, were quite modest.
