Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...
...after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents, colored by all the splendor of the setting...
...political change of planetary significance: the Western World's center of gravity has jumped West. Henceforth the Atlantic Ocean will be what the Mediterranean was for 20 centuries-the lake of decision. Implication: to the strongest power along the shorelines of this new Mediterranean may fall the splendor and the responsibility that once were Rome's. That strongest power is the U.S. Its war aims ultimately express only one concern: the safeguarding of the unique U.S. position as the dominant Atlantic power...
Garbage and Cripples. He wandered about Vienna, a Rip van Winkle living on dreams of court splendor; sometimes awakened by the sound of rifle fire and the sight of mobs pouring through the street...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...