Word: gorgeousity
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...years 75 men in the New York City Department of Sanitation have led double lives. Ostensibly employed as street cleaners, stablemen and garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they...
Observers who expected the Xth Olympiad* of the Modern Era to be a failure because of Depression, international hard-feeling or Los Angeles' promotion methods were vastly disappointed last week. The Xth Olympiad was a gorgeous, unprecedented success. More people attended the Games than ever before (510,000 through last week). The athletes (1,740), better housed than ever, enjoyed themselves more than hitherto. In actual competition, it began to look last week as though the Xth Olympiad might be too much of a success: in almost every race, runners broke Olympic records. This was not entirely because the runners...
...noteworthy for their excellence of typography, and their fine presswork. "The Colophon, A Book Collectors Quarterly," in which each article is printed by a different printer, is one of the most interesting volumes shown. There are also several Rockwell items including: his "Book Plates," lithographs for a gorgeous edition of "Beowulf," and his classic edition of Voltaire's "Candide." A fine edition of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" with illustrations by Donald McKay is also shown...
...from any actual results which the presentation of the "Philoctetes" may have, it is good to be able to know these dramas. Little need be said of the increased prestige which they will bring to the Classical Club and likewise to the Department of the classics. But to see gorgeous Tragedy in sceptered pall come sweeping by, is enough in itself to make one urge that the project be carried through. The University will repay the Classical Club for its efforts in thanks, if not in gold...
...went out to investigate "Radithor," made by Bailey Radium Laboratories at East Orange, N.J. Robert Hiner Winn, attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, interviewed Byers at his Southampton home last September. Last week Attorney Winn described the scene: "A more gruesome experience in a more gorgeous setting would be hard to imagine. We went up to Southampton where Byers had a magnificent home. There we discovered him in a condition which beggars description...