Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when, in other years one of Smith Halls observing and courageous Fresh men would have written a communication to the CRIMSON suggesting that "H" we won the Yale game we arrange with the Elevated company to string a row of flags between their two smokestacks and produce a gorgeous "H". It never failed to happen before, but now the smokestacks are gone. Another method must be devised to discover the one with the original mind in the class...
...parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved, colorful hatchetmen fought slyly for the sake of their Tongs...
When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...
Like Kings George of Britain and Fuad of Egypt, King Carol is a philatelist, has a collection of 11,000 stamps. Stamp dealers in Paris last week reported a large order of rarities for the royal album, hinted that the new and gorgeous Carol postage stamps ordered for the October coronation would be put on sale in Rumanian postoffices anyway, coronation or no coronation...
Eighteen years ago rumor spread that St Paul's like London Bridge, was fall down An elaborate scientific examination disclosed and analyzed ominous cracks in Sir Christopher Wren's great and gorgeous dome. For the restoration of . Paul's more than $2,000,000 in subscriptions poured in (a great proportion of H from the U. S.). Taking its own good time, the restoration progressed, great space under the dome was filled with scaffolding, and for over five years the scaffolding stayed there. Londoners had only the vaguest idea of exactly what was the matter with...