Word: splendorful
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...becoming fashionable. Once the identifying oddity of the notorious Teddy Boys, it is now played at coming-out balls and high-toned birthday parties (including the Duke of Kent's, who was 21 last October), in the ballroom of Claridge's and in the drafty Victorian splendor of Balmoral Castle itself, where Queen Elizabeth last summer requested a showing of Haley's movie Rock Around the Clock. The Queen's former dancing teacher. Marguerite Vacani, instructs her aristocratic pupils in its mysteries, and it has become a passion of Princess Margaret, who last week was reported...
...beautiful clean robe with two great white wings" to her final defiance before those who call her sorceress and heretic: "What I am, I will not denounce. What I have done, I will not deny." Hallmark Producer-Director George Schaefer's light-and-camera play brought splendor to the color screen, and elaboration to each of Joan's many moods and moments...
What is the measure of a writer's greatness? "The splendor of failure," said Faulkner. What any writer wants is "not to be better than his friend Hemingway or his friend Dos Passes, but he wants to be greater than Cervantes or Dostoevsky. None of us were quite as good as those. We all failed. There is no degree of failure...
...gives one cent of economic aid to King Saud, because his profits are being cut by the Suez crisis, every American taxpayer ought to boycott the Internal Revenue Service. The injustice of this non-Christian King in all his splendor coming to this Christian country and asking us poor, hard-working American taxpayers for economic aid makes my blood boil! Let him cut down his standard of living so it matches ours...
Hidden beneath the Victorian splendor of Memorial Hall lies an intricate network of strikingly modern offices, research rooms, and passageways, which form the home of the Harvard Psychological Laboratories...