Word: gorgeousity
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Louder comes the music. A regiment with great bearskin hats, long coats, and polished boots swings in to view. They are followed by six matched horses hitched with gorgeous gilt trappings. On the blinkers are the tiny, polished letters "G. R." Behind the horses is a great gilt coach within which sits His Majesty the King. He is, as every one knows, on his way to open Parliament...
...Great Britain's pound, while on the gold standard, was also equivalent to 113 grains of fine gold, and South Africa's pound still is. Thus the Union's new unit will have exactly the same value as her present unit; but it will have a gorgeous, glowing 100% South African name, "the Rand...
...cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed low over polished finger nails. Workmen would look up through dirty shop windows...
Nevertheless Crown Prince Azam Jah obeyed his father's orders to marry last week, and so did Prince Moazzam Jah. Proceeding to Nice, France, these drab brothers were caparisoned with Oriental pomp, garlanded with flowers, buckled with jeweled swords and conducted by a suitably gorgeous retinue to the villa of His Holiness the politically deposed Caliph of Islam, goat-bearded Abdul Medjid Effendi, 63, still spiritually potent...
...grimness into Subway Express and The Last Mile. The same note of grimness has unfortunately thrust itself into I Love an Actress, producing an effect not unlike that of a wispy Marie Laurencin drawing surrounded by a baroque gilt frame. Joe Mielziner has done sets that are too gorgeous for any actor to be funny in front...