Word: gorgeousity
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...divorce case Kenneth McKenna contracts with his stenographer to marry her for one year, or until the ugly situation blows over. Its a purely business measure as far as he is concerned. Constance goes on a solitary honeymoon to Paris and, with the help of a few gorgeous clothes, becomes an overnight sensation. She returns to find her former employer who decides, after one glance, that there wasn't much point in a purely platonic relationship...
...this was not a Chapter (formal meeting) of the Order of the Garter, George V and Edward of Wales wore ordinary morning dress instead of gorgeous Garter robes, but the clergy of the Order came robed and resplendent, each churchman displaying the famed motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
...felt in years centred on the government declaration to be read to the Lords and Commons by the King-Emperor in his "Speech from the Throne"-actually written last week by Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden in council. As though for a zero hour, the Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
...time when, in other years one of Smith Halls observing and courageous Fresh men would have written a communication to the CRIMSON suggesting that "H" we won the Yale game we arrange with the Elevated company to string a row of flags between their two smokestacks and produce a gorgeous "H". It never failed to happen before, but now the smokestacks are gone. Another method must be devised to discover the one with the original mind in the class...
...parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved, colorful hatchetmen fought slyly for the sake of their Tongs...