Word: gorgeousity
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...come from the sun, but they may be influenced somehow by its sudden blackout. Airborne, too, will be Army meteorologists, watching temperature changes in the atmosphere at all levels as the moon's cold shadow sweeps across Brazil. If the weather is good, they ought to get a gorgeous silhouette picture of the earth's satellite...
...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles." And the marble tablets that cover the walls may still be read "amid the gorgeous emblazonry"--with a flashlight...
...midnight, in his organ voice, the Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
...blab brothers." Said he: "There is a great gullibility . . . about a prevalent radio and newspaper type-the Keyhole Kommentator. Even though his specialties are trivia and truffles, he does not hesitate to deal with tremendous things. . . . The formula is an ingenious one. Our commentator will report (A) that Gladys Gorgeous is going to be divorced next week, and (B) that Yugoslavia will attack us in six months. Comes next week and Gladys . . . gets her divorce. (A) proves to be true; consequently (B) must be true-Gladys is unhitched, therefore war is inevitable...