Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...
Professor Coolidge expressed to his Eli listeners the earnest desire that the fine spirit and traditions of Pierson College would continue to flourish on the splendid foundation that its departing master had laid. President Angell of master had laid. President Angell of Yale, the next speaker, continued the eulogy of Mr. Valentine...
...discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial poise is obtuse in him, and cannot therefore point its way to ah unerring decree...
...wish to applaud with a thunderclap Richard Waller of Le Luc, France, for introducing his splendid idea of creating a family of "Friends of TIME," to guarantee TIME two new subscriptions for every one canceled by saucy letters [TIME...
...five breathed together, the girls lifted and Miss Maxwell levitated nervously. Back in her chair, she shrilled: "I think it mad fun, utterly mad! I shall introduce it at my party for Noel Coward. . . . Why not toss the subject into the air and then run? It's a splendid way to snub an unwelcome guest. . . . Do it again...