Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have, though eight hours from Sao Paulo, Capital of the State of Sao Paulo, available very splendid Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo papers with current events (written in Portuguese, not Spanish, as even yet some poor misguided Americans think...
...clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life?becomes merely the concentration necessary...
...successor, Vice President Curtis, Ambassador Dawes remarked: "Charlie sure is a splendid presiding officer...
Peace did not follow the election. Burkitt declared: "I am the most disappointed man in New Jersey." Said the Mayor: ". . . Deeply grateful . . . splendid vote . . . personal enmity . . . slanderers silenced . . . return to peace and prosperity...
...held before the game was postponed until a late hour in the evening because the Metropolitan police thought it would be unwise for 16 Lampoon editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...