Word: gorgeousity
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...rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma...
...third time it opened and the procession disappeared within. There are Catholic mysteries not open to the public. Promptly at ten o'clock began another procession from the residence of Archbishop Glennon to the Cathedral for the classic ritual of Pontifical High Mass. Robed in their most gorgeous vestments, the assemblage of churchmen provoked manifestations of devout reverence. In front glinted the cross with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages...
...frenzied search for a new title this show was known as Palm Beach Girl and, at the last moment as No Foolin'. Beneath this inconspicuous nomenclature lies a show bursting with opulence. On the opening night it played till midnight. It showed dozens of gorgeous scenes, scores of glorified girls, countless songs and scenes. So great was the supply of everything that the mind wearied and the tastes grew tired. One wished that Mr. Ziegfeld had condensed his entertainment. Such condensation will unquestionably occur before ten days are gone...
That imperturbable quality grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...
...George William Cardinal Mundelein to His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, nearly two years ago. Fiat!?and the well-beloved Cardinal, who also is His Grace the Archbishop of Chicago, set himself to gathering (there is no culling in Roman Catholicism of the present day) his flowers of faith?gorgeous roses dewed with the jewels of eminence, lowly poppies jeweled with repentent tears, episcopal orchids and unseen violets, flowers of the field and of city back lots, posies of the little windowbox and plants grown resplendent in the conservatory of religion. The ingathering is almost complete this wek. A million...