Word: splendorful
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...always been a sensitive soul, disliking abrupt contrasts. The annual transition from vacation to college jars his equilibrium, and the divine aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen will brighten...
California is a country which resembles Greece in its brilliant skies, its hot bright landscape with blue waves curling at the edges. Its inhabitants have a Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them...
Noteworthy in International Music Hall is the use of modern industrial materials with which Donald Deskey has always been potent. Out of Bakelite, chromium-plated steel, pyroxalin, aluminum, linoleum, he proposes to create "an effect of splendor and magnificence...
...these, with the hundred-odd voices of the Glee Club sounding from the steps of Widener, with the professors and the professors' wives, the students and girls from Radcliffe listening under the shadow of the elms, with the sun going down in subdued splendor, and the pigeons fluttering about the columns, the Vagabond detects a freshness and spontaneity which break through the veneer of Harvard indifference. Last night only a slightly chilly wind checked his enthusiasm, and even that did not prevent him from joining the group of carollers on the steps, at the invitation of the impressario. Enthusiasm...
...Kingdom passed away, a Republic came, a great man reeled over Europe, a kingdom came again, and the inevitable Republic followed, a small man flickered on the continent, and then the Third Republic. Versailles saw queer days. Women shouting for bread and a Queen offering cake. The splendor tarnished in the shadows, and silence fell, unending silence, to be broken at last by a German voice and the voice of Empire. And again deep silence...