Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stained glass windows are the Holy Scriptures because they shut out wind and rain; and since their brilliance lets the splendor of the True Light pass into the church, they enlighten those inside...
...Then it will be placed on a gun carriage and escorted by slow-marching troops through the silent heart of London to St. Paul's Cathedral. Statesmen and soldiers, old comrades and old foes will come from all over the world for the obsequies, which in scale and splendor will be unsurpassed by any funeral for a commoner in British history...
Louis XIII furniture is much like the King's rule: cosmopolitan, craftsman-like and built for the ages. The second of the Bourbons, he ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England's Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque. It was a period that saw both the dissolving of the parlements and the founding of the Académic Française...
...sports fans, who expanded his father's hot-dog concessions into a $20 million annual feast at 45 tracks including the caviar and peach Melbas served at such fancy beaneries as the Diamond Club at the New York Mets' Shea Stadium and a soon-to-open splendor at Florida's Hialeah race track; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...circus itself, in its seamy, gaudy splendor, was Calder's first fascination. He tried many trades, from lumberjack to able seaman; he was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 as a mechanical engineer. Drawing came naturally, and five years out of college he signed on as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette. To his delight, one day he was assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which...