Word: gorgeousity
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...GORGEOUS HUSSY - Samuel Hopkins Adams - Houston Mifflin ($2.50). Historical romance about Peggy Eaton, the off-key belle of Washington in Andrew Jackson's day. by one of the Old Guard...
...decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids as the "eighth distinct and conflicting policy adopted by the Post Office Department within . . . six weeks...
...visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come within 40 feet of the jury...
...Albert R. Johnson; songs by Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre in mid-June, usually played to out-of-town visitors until the following spring. Ziegfeld called the 1927 edition...
...masses of data on construction of huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome's elegant hotel underlying the deck were pricked out with cozy lights...