Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...
...always permitted itself a rather cautious association with the Arts. The tonsorial standards of elegance may be prohibitive to the abundant locks of genius. But the works of genius, the children of the opulently thatched brain of creative art, have never been questioned as the appurtenance of polite splendor. The hallmarks of Society must be conspicuous. Therein is the serene excellence of music. All the world-all the world that is a world-is there to see you listen to symphony or opera and to be seen...
Smooth gliding Hispano-Suizas, Minervas, gracefully imperious Renaults, the more conventional Rolls-Royces have begun again to deposit their precious burdens at the sacrosanct portals of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, of the Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make...
...super-motion picture, made as this picture should be made, on a scale in keeping with the sublimity of the theme, with all the splendor and wealth of material which the theme itself lends, and with all the wonderful technical resources which the art of the motion picture now commands, will be the most unique event in the history of motion picture production and an achievement in the cause of religion whose far-reaching results are beyond computation...
...Splawn can work more effectively than ever for his dream. This is his dream: "Some day the vast stretch of country along the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico may develop a civilization surpassing that of the countries along the Mediterranean when they were at their peak of splendor and grandeur. Texas and Texans should lead in the development of this greater civilization; and the most potent influence should be that which comes from the University of Texas...