Word: splendorful
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...order to dispel any notion that observers were brought in merely "as topdressing to the pomp and splendor of the occasion," the cardinal dwelled at length on the efforts made by both sides to integrate non-Catholics in line with the ecumenical aspects of the Council...
...Cover) In the gilt and white splendor of Carnegie Hall, the little ceremony seemed as homey as a washtub fiddle. "Old Buck eyes are as proud as can be of this fine, fine orchestra from Cleveland." announced the man from the Ohio Society of New York. "My gosh." answered the man from the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, "we're proud too." The Manhattan audience that had assembled for the first of the Cleveland Orchestra's current series of three New York concerts greeted this dialogue with faint, perfunctory applause. It was in no mood to encourage chatter: there...
...Alvern moved into the costliest governor's mansion in the U.S. Davis was feeling kind of sheepish for having pushed completion of the $1,000,000 "Taj Mahal of the bayous" at a time when he had a record $73 million deficit, insisted that all this Greek Revival splendor is just not for him: "So far as I'm concerned, all I need is my bedroom with a rocking chair, a flashlight and coon dog." As for pictures, said Davis, "the only ones I'd want would be a picture of my mother and father...
...dreary" Boston newspaper situation). However, unless St. George is also a schizophrenic, how could he call Mickey Mantle an "unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
...will stop here, for a cursory examination of the tesserae cannot recreate the splendor of the whole Mosaic...