Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II. As the Isle of Wight fell astern, and she glided majestically past the coast of England, the Queen was not only steaming for New York but out of an all but vanished age-an age of which she had once been a sumptuous symbol, and whose splendor (and profits sorely needed by Britons) she was making a gallant attempt to recapture...
...Square, without a break or a gap. Most of them were smiling. A voice from the loudspeaker regularly bade the crowd to "Hurrah for Stalin." But all quite naturally turned their faces up toward him. No other procession I ever saw had the force, impact or sheer splendor of that ragged million. It was Russia that had passed, in the shape of her patient, pliant, tireless people...
...town house was redecorated and bedizened with a $2,000,000 (Billy's estimate) collection of paintings, a $50,000 collection of Paul Storr silver, and what Billy calls "all the latest antiques." In this hushed splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
...hushed splendor of a Manhattan museum (the Frick) that was once a coal baron's Fifth Avenue palace, some of the most serious U.S. poets and critics gathered. They had come to hear, and honor, the acknowledged first poet of their day. T. S. Eliot, making one of his rare U.S. appearances, delivered a new lecture on his old enemy, John Milton...
...stately house half a mile down Brattle Street is virtually over, no one should weep, for it has been an abnormally long life. Built in 1759 by a young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House, had to foot...