Word: corinthian
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Verres lost his life after he refused to give Mark Antony some of his Corinthian bronzes. "The story is told that when Mark Antony sent him the poison to drink in a murrhine cup, the most valuable article in his collection, Verres drank the poison quickly and dashed the cup upon the marble floor, smashing it into a thousand pieces...
...provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...
Tough Enough. Eighteen representatives of the two trustee nations met in Seoul's Duk Soo Palace. Their surroundings seemed a continent away-Corinthian columns, mirrored doors and long French Republic draperies. On the walls flickered tiny replicas of the torch that the Statue of Liberty holds. Outside, azaleas bloomed...
...hotel drew a wide and wealthy following. General Phil Sheridan lived there, delighted by the splendor of its huge Corinthian rotunda, Italian marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
...service suffused with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...