Word: gorgeousity
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...wares as an actress in this week's bill at the University. Appearing at the start as the saddened, wronged woman, her pitiful fate is written on her features with seemingly unreasonable lines. But, with the aid of movie magic, her characteristic expressions are soon reversed, she becomes the gorgeous young torch singer in a highbrow New York night club; she is a lithe figure, but experienced in handling men. She has learned...
...silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
...Atlantic but gave up the scheme when the Civil War broke out. (He organized and commanded a two-balloon air force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed...
Kublai, the mighty Khan who in the 13th Century ruled from the Yellow Sea to Poland, used to decree the pitching of his gorgeous Mongol tent every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers...
...outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except the stock itself. That went to a board of seven trustees composed of Mrs. Bok. her two sons. Editor Lorimer, Vice President Fuller of Curtis Publishing Co., Publisher Martin, and his Treasurer Tyler. Counting Editor Lorimer and Vice President Fuller...