Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...
Many thanks for the numerous informations received by reading your splendid publication. Certainly: qui habet tempus habet vitam...
Seagulls poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
...further fancied himself as impresario, sank millions in grand opera (conveniently in the same flamboyant building with his Erie offices); and millions more for French farce and Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed...
...bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president, and ever afterwards dubbed him Jubilee...