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...essential side of it-the contrast between the stability of the Throne and the confusion teeming around it. The other side was expressed in a quiet talk of great beauty and simplicity (see RELIGION). The old Archbishop of York stood before the couple and said: "Notwithstanding the splendor and national significance of this occasion, this service in all essentials is exactly the same as it would be for any cottager who might be married this afternoon in some small country church in a remote village in the dales...
...Duke & Duchess of Montoro, married last fortnight in a Seville ceremony surrounded by a splendor of plush and fine feathers (TIME, Oct. 20), arrived in Manhattan on their honeymoon, looking glad to be out of it all even if they were the daughter of the Duke of Alba and the fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor...
...time & again, with excited applause. He had been informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which] just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art"). And Author Hammerstein had been informed by the box office that his show had a record advance take of $750,000 in the till. The talk of Broadway for long weeks before it opened, Allegro would still be talked about a long while after...
Moscow, the holy and the bloody, the loved and the dreaded, last week was a historic focus of rejoicing and remembrance. Her crown of spires and belfries shone in freshly gilded splendor, and the cupolas of her innumerable churches sat m the sky like frozen clouds. The cross atop the Tower of Ivan the Great glistened m the sun, and told visitors approaching from all over Russia that they were near their goal. In the streets, the people lanced and blessed their city upon its 800th anniversary. It was as Moscow's son, Alexander Pushkin, had written "Moscow: those...
...Lincoln, Neb., a state commission was all set to unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...