Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigration inspector also went on board the Queen Mary. He reported the crew ready & willing to answer all questions. Said the captain about the inspector: "A splendid bloke . . . The men want to help him. It's to their advantage...
...habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation to speed his courtship of Cecily, both girls believe them selves to be engaged to the nonexistent Earnest until this pleasant deception is cleared up in a splendid barrage of turn-of-the-century epigrams...
Happily, amid these mountains of pudding, there were a few splendid plums...
Authors Arno and Anneliese Peters made no bones about it. Back in 446 B.C., they wrote proletarian heroes were denouncing private property and the democratic state; and by 476 A.D. a splendid fellow named Masdak was proclaiming to his native Persia that "private property is the root of hatred and strife between men . . . the cause of all evil and bad. Communism is applied religion ..." In 1492, of course, Columbus discovered America, but in the Peters book the founding of the Siberian town of Sibir rated as much space...
Said Dr. de Campos: "What we have seen in the loggia until now is only a pale shadow of the splendid promenade intended for the Pope. It would always have remained a shadow if a providential discovery had not restored a little of the old light...