Word: splendorful
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...parents were school superintendents on Britain's tropical, oil-rich island of Trinidad. As a boy, young Basil often climbed the hill, eleven miles from Port of Spain, to visit the monastery of Mount St. Benedict, first West Indian outpost of the Benedictine order. Irresistibly drawn to "the splendor of the liturgical life" he found there, at 14 he was discussing his vocation with the prior...
...astonishment of Lawyer Bumpus and almost everyone else, from Lawrenceburg to Mink Slide, the jurors took their oath seriously. Correspondent Vincent Sheean, who had covered the trial with mild hysteria, called the jury's action "the kind of thing that makes us realize the full splendor of our destiny as a nation...
...before pleasure even at Maxim's. Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...
Over Lac Leman the sun set in splendor. Mont Blanc's icy peak changed from red to grey to blue, finally faded into the falling night. The moon rose. From an old-fashioned paddle steamer, 400 UNRRA employes (who had taken time out from their Geneva conference for a boat ride) watched the grandiose spectacle in awed fascination...
...film showing scenes of the last two Commencements and other Yard activities. This film was, logically enough, produced by the Harvard Film Service which, one would judge by its modest quarters in the basement of the Germanic Museum, probably photographed pastoral views of the University in all its splendor, and very little else...