Word: gorgeousity
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...Such gorgeous words meant, of course, that Japan's militarists were toying with the project of an onslaught upon Russia (which has been feverishly strengthening the fortifications of Vladivostok). But the situation in Japan itself was critical last week. With business hamstrung by the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods, with business leaders unable to judge precisely which way the militarists would jump, even public service corporations like the Tokyo Subway Railway Co. were in acute uncertainty and fear...
...egotism became convinced the Lord had endowed him with a peculiar prescience and ability which raised him into a royally created class, far more blessed by a discriminating and wise Creator. ... It is little to be wondered at if the ordinary investor approached in some trepidation this gorgeous creature, begged for advice and counsel and with gratitude accepted his direction. The poor investor saw only one of God's anointed; but the anointed, none too proud to take any sum from any person upon any representation, thought only of the profits accruing. . . . The hats of our people were doffed...
Thousands of tenement dwellers only know it by the softness of the air, the rows of overcoats in the pawnshops. Manhattan makes up for this yearly by beating the equinox with a display of such gorgeous flowers as never grew under open sky. Last week some two hundred thousand people paid $1 apiece to shuffle through the 19th International Flower Show, an exhibit that filled for the first time four full floors of the Grand Central Palace...
...production was brisk, because earnest German singers looked funny cavorting about the stage, because light opera becomes the Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more up-to-date. The Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold court costume, magnificently casual as she steps up to the sacred prompter's box and uses it like a brass rail. Neatest tricks: a high dive by the big soprano, relaxed as any trained ballerina, straight into the arms of Tenor Marek Windheim and Baritone Louis...
Inside the Kremlin Fortress 600 pink-cheeked, drably-dressed Russians met last week in the gorgeous, glittering onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II. Stamping the snow off their shoes, blowing on their hands, wiping their red noses, lighting cigarets and shouting greetings they sat down on wooden benches for a brief session of the Soviet Parliament, or Union Central Executive Committee...