Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main, Admiral Brumby seemed to have conferred intelligently with his more technically expert subordinates and ordered what all agreed was best, including the delay in attaching airlines to the wreck's "ears." Moreover, said Secretary Wilbur, the Brumby record of 31 years in the Navy was so splendid as to overcome whatever "errors or oversight or failures" could be justly charged against him on his testimony...
...reason seemed simple, rational last week to citizens of Vimoutier, 35 miles south of fashionable Deauville. In their public square stood a splendid new statue, ready for unveiling, a statue of a peasant woman holding a pot of cheese...
...Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
...cheered. The conductor took his bows, then motioned to his musicians to acknowledge their share of the ovation. This they refused to do; instead, they too applauded their conductor. For though they had played well, in fact beautifully, the musicians were aware that most of the credit for a splendid performance of one of the most exciting compositions in modern music belonged to Mr. Monteux-who first conducted Le Sacre du Printemps and who is admittedly as familiar with the tangled splendor of its score as the composer himself...
...thirst for an actual view of the social and judicial evils of Chicago, a splendid opportunity is provided for him in Maurice Watkins' "Chicago" now playing at the Plymouth Theatre...