Word: gorgeousity
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...green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza...
Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...Kioto" means "capital," and for nearly eleven centuries Kioto was the capital of Japan. Laid out with mathematical precision 'in 793 by the Emperor Kwammu, the city is still replete with gorgeous temples and handsome public buildings. The city's remarkably pure water supply has made it the chief Japanese city for bleaching and dyeing cloth...
...subsequent reign was marked by a broad humanity. He revived the gorgeous costumes and extensive retinue of his ancestors, yet lived both frugally and simply. His taste for jam and for bean sauces is still said to be marked, but he has seldom indulged in these edibles to excess. His people grew to know and love him as a dignified personage with dark, luminous eyes, and possessed of very remarkable powers of oratory. For nine years he reigned. Then his health broke down utterly...
Most of the 16 episodes related hinge lightly upon Andy's habitual infatuations and insouciant technique. There is a great deal of sprightly nonsense, gorgeous absurdity and amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time...