Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Council. The election of Bishop Murray was the more acclaimed because he has never sought reflected splendor. Neither has Bishop Brent, although for many years he has been conspicuously in the forefront of public and ecclesiastical affairs in the U. S., in Asia, in Europe. If he felt disappointment at failure to receive the honor which many thought should be his, it was trifling compared with the disappointment, which he probably expected and which he emphatically received on the following...
Meanwhile remembrance is busy with the late Maharaja, third of his line, grandson of Ghulab Singh, founder of the Kashmir dynasty. For two score years he ruled in Oriental splendor from his palace at Srinagar, effected important political and social reforms, and was so far friendly to the British that he sent an army of 10,000 men to fight with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed...
...Reverend Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo spoke the Commoner's funeral oration before a crowded church: "There was a threefold splendor about this noble man. . . . He had a capacity for noble living. . . . He had a deep capacity for love. . . . He had a rich capacity for faith. . . . God bless and hallow the heritage and memory of William Jennings Bryan...
...converged upon a small, ill-favored church in the centre of the block flanked by apartment buildings- St. Nicholas Cathedral (mother church of all Russian Orthodox faithful in North America) which faintly reflects the Slavic splendor by its six cupolas above, and by ugly ikons and a seatless rotunda within...
...when quizzes are corrected and report cards made out, instead of a cigar, bridge and radio at the Faculty Club, he permits himself to muse on humanities that are "shop" to most of his profession. Andivius Hedulio (1921) was the rich biography of a Roman youth in the tawny splendor of the Augustan Age. Now Scholar White fleshes in that (violet-eyed, dusky-haired) laconic lady who dislocated the destinies of Troy...