Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, the prep school at Mill Hill. He would like to go over and have a look at the place. Is that all right with you?" So Christopher had his look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing with the glorious tales he told. The first thing old Bumblie did when he got to Marlborough, he said, was to address the entire school, masters and all. Then he sacked the matron ("She's a bit of a stinker, it seems"). After that, he gave the headmaster a terrific wigging...
...certain that no man ever said to Alice B. Toklas: "If you could only cook!" Small, wiry and quite bereft of feminine charm, she was once cattily described as "the lady with the melancholy nose." But cook she could-or at least she went into the kitchen armed with glorious recipes...
...Sheppard trial suddenly became terrible when they brought Marilyn Sheppard into the courtroom ... It was all done with seven slides in glorious Technicolor and a cocky unsentimental little medical examiner with a Phi Beta Kappa key spinning from his vest chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful...
...life, spiritual as well as material, for his province. Rembrandt overshadowed last week's exhibition, and also dominated its pendant show of Dutch prints and drawings. Rembrandt's etching Faust (above) asserts a force of imagination foreign to his environment. With such pictures, Rembrandt outstripped even the glorious age into which he had been born. In advancing his art beyond fashionable portraiture, Rembrandt chose poverty, increasing neglect, and immortality...
...Moscow on the same day, the three leading Soviet newspapers burst out with long stories memorializing Belgrade's liberation, "the glorious Yugoslav army" and its "serious contribution" to the common victory over the Nazis...