Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tittering. Into the midst of the festive scene marched a godlike creature, dressed almost as for the ancient Olympics. He smiled, shook and kissed hands all round, proceeded to a roped-off platform on the greensward. There his actions banished the last lingering doubt that he was Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man of France," beginning to train for his bout on July 24 with Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight champion, at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan...
...silent brethren of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane celebrated their 75th year of existence at Gethsemane, Ky., by a gorgeous procession to Pontifical Mass. Their Abbot, Edmond Marie Obrecht, already mitred and having the rank of Bishop in his territory, was given the purple zucchetto, a skull cap which ranks him as Bishop where-ever he goes. The zucchetto was conferred in person by Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who said: "Had it been a red zucchetto it would not have been too much." The monks celebrated by giving a feast to all their guests, although they themselves...
...Majestic (White Star) : Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party; Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man," and his manager Francois Descamps; Gilbert Miller, head of Charles Frohman, Inc., who brought several new plays including The Roman Feast by Ferenc Molnar, author of The Swan, The High "C" by Ernest Vajda, author of Fata Morgana; Miss Teddy Gerard, vaudeville actress who has been in England for several years...
...statement and which is authenticated by its recognition by the whole Church." The Martian would have heard that six Bishops had associated themselves with the gathering, to wit: Weller of Fond du Lac, Webb of Milwaukee, Griswold of Chicago, Johnson of Colorado, the British Bishop of Honduras, " most gorgeous of all, " and Ethelbert Talbot, senior Bishop of the entire Church. Finally, he would have heard Dr. George Stewart, of Evanston, III, declare: " It is our duty to make it unmistakable that we are Catholic and not Protestant." (Cheers. Clapping.) Just as the Martian was deciding that the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens of thousands of Americans who have seen the Chauve-Souris in the past...