Word: splendorful
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...buildings shared humans' love for revenge, the Chicago Auditorium last week would have been supremely, smugly satisfied. The old Auditorium, which President Benjamin Harrison and Adelina Patti helped dedicate 43 years ago, used to be headquarters for Chicago's social and operatic splendor. Four months after Samuel Insull opened his $20,000,000 skyscraper opera house, the Auditorium went into receivership, grew dingier & dingier while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again...
...everyone's amazement it was India's bejeweled Princes and Maharajas who upset the show by upsetting Great Britain's major premise, namely that the Indian rulers would be unwilling to merge their states into an Indian Federation. One after another Their Highnesses arose in dazzling splendor to say that they were willing...
...Friend had seen everything that there was to see in the distant corners of this Great Commonwealth of Intellects and now they were returning to the Yard for the Big Surprise. The Vagabond had been keeping the New Chapel up his sleeve waiting to astonish The Friend with its splendor. They had visited Adams House and its brilliant Early Eclectic purity filled the imagination of The Friend. Architecture can go no further, he thought...
...swish, rustle and ornate embroidery even the robes of Chinese courtiers to Her Majesty the late, ferocious Dowager Empress (died 1908) were scarcely superior to the gorgeous, brand new robes donned last week in Changchun, capital of the new state of Manchukuo, by splendor-loving Foreign Minister Hsieh Chieh-shih and his swishing, rustling entourage...
Last night the Vagabond went for a stroll. He went for a stroll under the elms in the Yard. It was not, as you might think, the Freshmen, listening to inspired oratory in Phillips Brooks House, nor the splendor of the chapel, nor even the hope of hearing a first, tentative 'Rinehard' which prompted him. The Vagabond was possessed by a deeper nostalgia as he walked by the walls of Hollis, and thought of the things that are passed...