Word: gorgeousity
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...recorded on large-scale organs, and one of which is in an opulent orchestral transcription. Certainly if there is any organist in the country who has spark enough in his fingers to put the Germanic Museum organ through its baptism of fire and make the rafters ring with really gorgeous organ sonorities, it is Weinrich...
...streetcars, having a Coca-Cola at the counter of some botica, getting into traffic jams, eating hot dogs at the races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves. No gorgeous Cadillacs or Packards waiting for him at the door of the hotel every morning, no stiff cocktail parties, no limelight...
...high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten soldier of Cortez' army in 1519 cried, "It is like the enchantments they tell of in the Legend of Amadis! Are not the things we see a dream?" But soon he smelled the sickening stockyard stench which was wafted from the gorgeous temples, saw thousands of skulls threaded on poles in the public squares...
...deer in the sun-flecked forest are familiar to everyone, adaptive coloration has always confused biologists. Extremists like G. H. and Ab bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes mistake them for sunsets. Other biologists have been skeptical...
...Washington, Eaton became acquainted-too well acquainted, some said-with Peggy O'Neale, daughter of an innkeeper, whose first husband apparently committed suicide while on naval duty in the Mediterranean. Partly to quiet gossip, Eaton married the "Gorgeous Hussy" in 1829. When President Andrew Jackson appointed Eaton Secretary of War, the furor of Washington society over Eaton's wife was such that the President's Cabinet fell apart. Later Eaton became Governor of Florida and Minister to Spain. After his death Peggy married an Italian dancing master who stole her money and eloped with her granddaughter...