Word: gorgeousity
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...proceeded to practice diplomacy with conspicuous success by the methods and almost in the language of Will Rogers. It is history that Mr. Moore once said to Her Majesty, "Gosh, you're beautiful! You remind me more than anybody else I ever knew of my wife [the late, gorgeous Lillian Russell]." In Pittsburgh the last will and testament of the late, great Alexander Pollock Moore (TIME, Feb. 24) was opened last week and found to contain a bequest of $100,000 to the Queen who reminded him of Lillian...
...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...
...Social Conditions in his country the Icelandic Publicist Halldor Kiljan Laxness has written: "Organized religion fares badly in Iceland. Ministers of religion have no prestige and the churches as a rule are empty on Sunday. . . . The Catholics have built a gorgeous cathedral at Reykjavik, though there are only about 150 Catholics in the town...
...those who will complain of the 30 seconds of Miss Miller's weeping, her giggling, and that she is no actress, but as she is continually dancing or singing it matters little and of Alexander Gray's unconvincing "rich young clubman" part; but a chance to see the gorgeous sets in Technicolor, and the really excellent dancing and singing by Miss Miller to catchy music shouldn't be turned down...
...ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...