Word: gorgeousity
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...Eaton, a Senator from Tennessee, was born on June 18, 1790; went to the Senate on Sept. 5, 1818. This shows that he went to the Senate when he was almost two years under the constitutional age of 30. Eaton, husband of Peggy O'Neale, the 'Gorgeous Hussy,' was the youngest man ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate...
Designer Donald Oenslager's setting of Sir Colenso's dinner party on the terrace of the Star and Garter is in the grand romantic manner. But the play's best view is Katharine Cornell herself, once described by Shaw as "a gorgeous dark lady from the cradle of the human race -wherever that was-Ceylon, Sumatra, Hilo, or the southernmost corner of the Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even...
Aside from the intellectual angle the humor of the movie is gorgeous. Hepburn and Stewart have a scene which takes in swimming, champagning and a wee bit of love that ends with the audience laughing so hard that the last few lines are missed. Go see it fellows and take anybody...
Then the group conferred. Herr Hitler undoubtedly explained the Axis plans for Greece, and presumably there were words about Gibraltar and Spanish bases in Morocco. Herr Hitler dined and wined the Spaniard, and told him that he was going to present the Spanish Catholic Church with some gorgeous holy vessels, pictures and statues (stolen from Poland). Then the heroes parted...
...long, brilliant procession streamed into the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some in crimson convocation robes; His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII, the bearded Patriarch of Assyria, wearing a gorgeous golden cope; Canada's Primate, the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, Archbishop of Toronto; and at procession's end the U. S. Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned...