Word: gorgeousity
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When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...
Like Kings George of Britain and Fuad of Egypt, King Carol is a philatelist, has a collection of 11,000 stamps. Stamp dealers in Paris last week reported a large order of rarities for the royal album, hinted that the new and gorgeous Carol postage stamps ordered for the October coronation would be put on sale in Rumanian postoffices anyway, coronation or no coronation...
Eighteen years ago rumor spread that St Paul's like London Bridge, was fall down An elaborate scientific examination disclosed and analyzed ominous cracks in Sir Christopher Wren's great and gorgeous dome. For the restoration of . Paul's more than $2,000,000 in subscriptions poured in (a great proportion of H from the U. S.). Taking its own good time, the restoration progressed, great space under the dome was filled with scaffolding, and for over five years the scaffolding stayed there. Londoners had only the vaguest idea of exactly what was the matter with...
Venerable Thera P. Vajiranana of Ceylon, robed in gorgeous Buddhist vestments of yellow and gold, addressed the New York Junior League. Said he: "I urge that the negligibility of material things be universally recognized...
Generally acclaimed as the most gorgeous male present (not excepting even George V who wore the scarlet coat of a mere Colonel of the Grenadier Guards) was the Abyssinian representative, black as the ten of clubs. Strutting in a white and gold embroidered jacket and trousers. His Excellency surmounted this with a voluminous black cape, worked all over with dazzling gold...