Word: splendorful
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There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...World War II. As the Isle of Wight fell astern, and she glided majestically past the coast of England, the Queen was not only steaming for New York but out of an all but vanished age-an age of which she had once been a sumptuous symbol, and whose splendor (and profits sorely needed by Britons) she was making a gallant attempt to recapture...
...reputation as a sculptor spread, he was commissioned by Edward VII to do the King's mount, Kildare. Then Queen Alexandra introduced him to her barouche horse, Splendor, George V sent around his great Shire stallion, Field Marshal V, and the young gentleman's career was assured. Later, in the U.S., he met and molded for bronze the late Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad...
...Square, without a break or a gap. Most of them were smiling. A voice from the loudspeaker regularly bade the crowd to "Hurrah for Stalin." But all quite naturally turned their faces up toward him. No other procession I ever saw had the force, impact or sheer splendor of that ragged million. It was Russia that had passed, in the shape of her patient, pliant, tireless people...
...town house was redecorated and bedizened with a $2,000,000 (Billy's estimate) collection of paintings, a $50,000 collection of Paul Storr silver, and what Billy calls "all the latest antiques." In this hushed splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...