Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story for distribution throughout the U.S. G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bishop of New York, was moved to write: "To me, this is journalism at a high level. It is the finest statement of the case against racial discrimination that I have read, in addition to being a splendid revelation of the heart and mind of a distinguished artist...
...Other Shore. It had certainly been a crowded month for Ellis Arnall. He had made a last gesture of splendid defiance toward Herman Talmadge. He had posed for photographers, lower lip outthrust, round face fixed in a fighting expression...
...Laubach has been more interested in planting the seed and getting results than in getting the credit, but some of us who know what obstacles he had to overcome . . . would like to have it known where this splendid accomplishment began...
Common gratitude would ensure Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman's sympathy. The British had rescued him from his father's disgrace, restored his family lands, given him a splendid palace. They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped trees with as much zeal as if they had been infidel heads...
Everybody agreed that the Ball had been a splendid revival of a splendid institution...