Word: splendorful
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...hushed splendor of a Manhattan museum (the Frick) that was once a coal baron's Fifth Avenue palace, some of the most serious U.S. poets and critics gathered. They had come to hear, and honor, the acknowledged first poet of their day. T. S. Eliot, making one of his rare U.S. appearances, delivered a new lecture on his old enemy, John Milton...
...stately house half a mile down Brattle Street is virtually over, no one should weep, for it has been an abnormally long life. Built in 1759 by a young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House, had to foot...
Look at the Sun. Other specialists will watch the sun. During totality, the sun's glowing corona will show up in all its splendor, to be photographed many times in both black & white and in color. The scientists hope that they can work out the suspected relation between sunspots (now near a maximum) and changes in the corona...
With a sigh, Vag circled University Hall and beamed a troubled glance on Old Jawn. Well that was all right--he was still unbowed in his solitary splendor. At least we have our tradition, Vag thought, but now, Fair Harvard, when thy sons to thy jubilee throng, the masculine spirit of year will be somewhat diluted. Those mellow occasions when the alumni used to contemplate "the good times we had with Copey" would have a strange air about them now when they realized there were others (he straightened his tie) who shared the same memories. Was that fair? There would...
...reactionaries. What is needed, beyond this, is the kind of moral effort a biographer put into the mouth of St. Dominic. Whether Dominic actually said it or not, the words are a call to men everywhere who face the Communist threat. When papal legates (the story goes) came in splendor to help him fight the Albigensian heretics of southern France, St. Dominic entreated them thus...