Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night falls, and Pierrot sits alone in the deserted marketplace. The folded tents of the merchants stand tall and sad as cypresses. The lady and her lover appear, and dance together a sensuous adagio. Sombert is lovely in this lyric piece, and Youskevitch is starkly splendid in his solo dance. The clown, mad with jealousy, climbs to the wire. He will prove, though he dies, that he is a man, and die he does. He lies broken in his lady's scarlet mantle, like a white bird in a pool of blood...
...damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France's Francis I, with tendrils, flowers and cupids sculptured in cold steel, earned him the title. "The Michelangelo of Armorers...
...would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post...
...carefully planned routine. He lay back, just off the pace, followed Villanova's Ron Delany as he jigged through a fast first quarter (0:60.6). Bailey slogged along in the pack. At the half-mile mark Landy took over. His long muscles moving in a loose and splendid stride, he eased past Delany, and set out for home. No one else was close...
Perhaps the least prominent of our Bow Street headquarters' many splendid accoutrements is a bird which surveys all the hearty fun both within and without...