Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luigi, and got a job as section laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad. His subsequent career was such that one Italian journalist referred to him as "one of the most esteemed and respected citizens of the United States . . . [He] started life as a navvy, and ended up with the splendor of gold of a stationmaster's braid...
...students and one professor listen incredulously, a one-time steel executive expounds his own particular solution to a complicated business problem. It's the B-School's case system in action, and, set in the functional splendor of Aldrich Hall, it is a visual lesson in what can be done with years of experience...
...took his pretty wife Dolly Ann along got feted in the most fashionable hostelries, was well reimbursed for what few tabs he picked up-and earned no reportable income. Last week Vic and Dolly Ann dropped in at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also on hand, amidst palm-shrouded splendor, for the first annual Caribe Hilton (Hotel) Invitation Tournament were creaky (39) but top-ranked Gardnar Mulloy, Art Larsen (No. 3) and Billy Talbert (No. 6). As usual, they came to play a little tennis and also just to play. Their daily regimen was elegantly simple: breakfast...
...There chief strands of late 16th century music were brought together. Clement's famous Adoramus and a Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
...Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, the Dominion of God, Inc., of Detroit, the Prophet Jones (who calls himself the Rt. Rev. Dr. James F. Jones on more formal occasions) feels it necessary to maintain a certain sartorial splendor. The Prophet wears topaz and garnet rings, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, and says he had 400 suits the last time he counted them. Nevertheless, since June 1949, two of his female followers have burned with a desire to equip him with more truly Universal raiment...