Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gorgeous in color, voluminous in content are the special English editions which leading Japanese magazines publish annually or on great occasions...
...poor, with the exception of a couple who go through a semi-adagio waltz. There is a troop of tumblers who are good. On one occasion the leader of the stage orchestra is seized by them and given a little experience in being tumbled. The setting, as usual, is gorgeous and highly elaborate, and there is some very intricate piano-playing done at one point...
...proceeded to practice diplomacy with conspicuous success by the methods and almost in the language of Will Rogers. It is history that Mr. Moore once said to Her Majesty, "Gosh, you're beautiful! You remind me more than anybody else I ever knew of my wife [the late, gorgeous Lillian Russell]." In Pittsburgh the last will and testament of the late, great Alexander Pollock Moore (TIME, Feb. 24) was opened last week and found to contain a bequest of $100,000 to the Queen who reminded him of Lillian...
...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...
...Social Conditions in his country the Icelandic Publicist Halldor Kiljan Laxness has written: "Organized religion fares badly in Iceland. Ministers of religion have no prestige and the churches as a rule are empty on Sunday. . . . The Catholics have built a gorgeous cathedral at Reykjavik, though there are only about 150 Catholics in the town...