Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with hair combed back severely into tight round buns, country-pretty girls in the early 20s. and children scooting mindlessly through the throng. Silently and intently, they listened as Orval Eugene Faubus, Governor of the sovereign state of Arkansas, told why they should keep him in the air-conditioned splendor of the Governor's mansion down in Little Rock for an unprecedented fifth term...
...work at 23, was best known for his monumental English Social History, which for some 20 years has been a standard text on both sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish and shorn of spiritual value...
...program was the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello (viewing price: $1), which has already made the rounds of the country's movie theaters and is well along on its journey from Broadway's Palace to The Late Show. Other first-week films include One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass and Breakfast at Tiffany's. But programming should improve. Hartford's pay viewers will get a chance to see Warner Brothers' still unreleased The Music Man; and next autumn they will watch the Bolshoi Ballet...
Older & Wiser. These modest attractions give klaxon-larynxed Eagle no opportunity to launch into the splendor of his oldtime spiel: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I invite your undivided attention to the most amazing attraction ever presented for the edification of the citizens of your fair city (come closer, please, so that I may describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles...
...tiara, sat a glistening segment of New York's feminine society. The girls had gathered for the usual ritual: a fashion show (this one a benefit in memory of Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who died in a plane crash last year). As usual, the crowd vied in splendor with the mannequins displaying the new summer modes. Mmes. William Woodward, George F. Baker, Frederick Gushing and John R. Fell turned out with their fanciest friends, some sporting the new ascetic Marienbad coiffure, and all dressed to the nines. But this was a fashion show with a difference. For it demonstrated...