Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession that was moving so slowly towards them...
...service; in the evening a small State banquet with toasts by the Kings of Sweden and Norway, a few foreign diplomats and Cabinet ministers, later a review of the students' torchlight procession-lay a contrast perfectly illustrative of the difference between a mighty empire, with world problems of gorgeous complexity, and a tight little kingdom with 25 years of peace behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week, in the 25th year of its Christian era, offered a study in sane, happy nationalism that was well expressed in a birthday book published for the occasion...
Where California's Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable...
...Kingdom & Empire are confident that the right people have now been golden-framed. Last week Buckingham Palace was a busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...
After seeing "One In a Million," which stars Miss Henie, we were puzzled whether the plot resembled her own life history. When questioned she replied, "Well, yes, a little," but then her eyes fell on Henie, senior, and she vigorously shook her gorgeous blonde head, exclaiming "No, not at all." There was a story behind that, we felt sure, but before we could inquire further she was whisked away from the dressing table on which we were sitting, and hurried through the packed throng outside, Garbo-fashion...