Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other's neck. After some exceedingly interesting internal conflict the wife decides that she is not so tired as she thought. The husband wakes up with equal abruptness and peace is made. The opera singer-much the wisest and most worthy figure-is left in somewhat lonely splendor...
...surprisingly unique. Never before has a royal diadem of Egypt been unearthed. And even the minor trappings of the royal person have hitherto been scarcely above ground. The reason is that previously discovered mummies have been stripped by thieves before the savants got at them. Every yield of ancient splendor laughs ironically at Egypt's squalorous fellaheen of today...
...attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil, now and then revealing it to us in its full opalescent splendor. The keynote of unworldliness, of "transcendental buffoonery" as Schlezel called it, is struck in the very opening of the first act and is sustained throughout the play. With much subtlety and with a whimsical humor not generally associated with the Russian drama in the mind of the average English-speaking...
...leader of a Twentieth Century fad, Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much to amuse and thrill their welcoming hearts in the mental contemplation of such granduer. The sentiment of the world Howard Carter holds in his right hand while he removes aged vestments from the mummy form of this early king with a gesture of his left...
...like Vesuvius, the Union relapses only to appear once more. Un question ably it has a place in the academic world and all that it needs to do to claim it is again to burst forth in forensic splendor. The subject of "Is Harvard Collegiate?" will doubtless provide sufficient scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...