Word: gorgeous
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Dandyism flourished, exquisite and exclusive, until the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which shifted the balance of power from the Lords to the Commons). Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
...National City Bank of New York. Ralph Leach, vice president and treasurer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., agreed. Said he: "I don't look for a downturn. If everything isn't going through the ceiling, people think business is lousy. This is nonsense. We're in gorgeous shape as far as the overall outlook for the year is concerned." Actually, the easing credit was one reason for optimism. Most economists think that the current dip is only temporary. The drop was caused chiefly by record corporate earnings and slower-than-expected inventory accumulation, which have increased...
Died. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, 85, longtime (1913-45) astronomer at the University of Virginia, who calculated the distances to 1,800 stars, in a lifetime traveled 90,000 miles for advantageous looks at the "most gorgeous spectacle in science"-the solar eclipse; in Bloomington...
...flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...
FLORIDE CALHOUN was a proud and fiery Charleston aristocrat, and her Southern pride may well have cost John C. Calhoun the presidency. When Peggy O'Neill ("The Gorgeous Hussy") Eaton, the Irish barmaid who had married the Secretary of War, came calling, she was received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice...