Word: gorgeousity
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...ring, that bass-viols groaned, flageolets and hautboys tootled, that torch bearers lessened the gloom of Notre Dame (lit by electricity last week), and finally that the wedding dress of Mary Queen of Scots was "white as the lily with which it was embroidered, but so prodigally rich and gorgeous, glittering with diamonds and silver as to be TOO DAZZLING for words to describe," and of such weight that "two demoiselles bore the train with difficulty...
...power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...Gorgeous in color, voluminous in content are the special English editions which leading Japanese magazines publish annually or on great occasions...
...poor, with the exception of a couple who go through a semi-adagio waltz. There is a troop of tumblers who are good. On one occasion the leader of the stage orchestra is seized by them and given a little experience in being tumbled. The setting, as usual, is gorgeous and highly elaborate, and there is some very intricate piano-playing done at one point...