Word: splendorful
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Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...
Distinguished by "the very small tower with no bells at all," Adams House is by no means an architectural masterpiece. A few steps can take you frrom the Byzantine splendor of the central hallway to the colonial simplicity of Apthorp House...
...South's in its splendor, the Yanks are all rotters...
Virginia is a story of reconstruction-not the postwar reconstruction of carpetbaggers and night riders, but the 1941-type reconstruction of rich Yankee gentlemen who buy up crumbling Southern estates, restore them to their ante-bellum splendor, are thoroughly snubbed for their pains by clannish, unreconstructed neighbors. The neighbor in this case is Stonewall Elliott (Fred MacMurray), who lost his ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet...