Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents, and yet-poor Christian-a good companion and a likeable fellow! His elder brother keeps better in line with the family tradition. He brings the name to full splendor by becoming a senator; he erects a new home for the old firm and the family...
...first shall indeed be last, regardless of whether the last are first. And the Freshman, who little cares for the splendor of a Cambridge summer or the magnificence of the prelude to a Harvard Commencement, must needs linger on until the last day of examinations. Only those happy individuals who have managed to avoid the first year monster, German A, have the privilege of deserting the scene of their labors at an early date. The rest, a group which includes most of the class, are fixtures until the noon which opens the recess...
Boston should be willing to suffer a temporary theatrical eclipse once a season if it can come out from behind the cloud with such vernal splendor as mid-April has brought in its train. And Boston's Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays will be only less happy for some time to come than its Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Winthrop Ames is producing Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" at the Plymouth on the odd days of each week and "The Pirates of Penzance" on the even days...
...upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor of his full canonicals. Vexed by "flagrant defiance," the Bishop boomed forth thunderous Latin phrases, formally excommunicated the three news-venders. A controversy raged...
...which it needs no magical agency to explain. And in other matters Mr. Robinson has altered his material for his own purposes. In the twelfth century version Isolt was "Isolt la Blonde"; in Malory, she was "La Belle Isond"; Mr. Robinson's Isolt has "night black hair" and "dark splendor" in her eyes. She is thus described, one imagines, to distinguish her from that other Isolt, Isolt of the white hands, for whom Tristram...