Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, through low-priced concert tickets and his splendid phonograph recordings, Sir Thomas' infliction is something that the U.S. public is suffering very happily. He has become a treasured and crusty feature on the musical landscape of democratic America...
...very touchy about the confusion between Australians and New Zealanders, even though your splendid Marines ask," Where do you go when the tide comes...
...Seine becomes so broad that ferryboats take the place of bridges. Wending its serpentine way through the Norman greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...
...Argentine minds the relative importance of the week's events was as set down above. Prudently neutral President Castillo may have been concerned with the chilliness of splendid isolation, but he braved it through. "Argentina's international position ... is sufficiently well known," said he. "It will not change...
...Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps Out), and scenarios (She Married Her Double, He Married Himself). "Retired today to peaceful Erwinna, Pa. Perelman raises turkeys which he occasionally displays on Broadway, stirs little from his alembics and retorts...