Word: splendorful
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...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
...over, and that is that there is no male chorous in the entire production. If some of the "beauty contest" winners were left out of the female ensemble that would be better too. Otherwise the show is entertaining enough but it does not leave one gasping at its splendor...
...militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill as one might at first be led to suppose, but the spirit of Tom Sawyer seems to have been sufficiently revived so that tales of heroism are not lacking. What chance has the collegiate youth against such splendor? Obviously nothing, and may God have mercy on his soul...
...Protestant Nebraskans who crowded into Omaha to gawk and wonder, the Congress seemed just what it was, a great convention staged with more splendor than Protestants are wont to marshal. The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, opened the religious program with a pontifical high mass at St. Cecilia's Cathedral. Archbishop Francis J. L. Beckman of Dubuque preached an emotional sermon. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland assembled the Priests' Eucharistic League and admonished the men to greater activities in the propaganda of Catholicism. George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and U. S. Circuit Judge Martin Thomas Manton...
Louis Persinger's career holds no breathless tales of splendor or of revolution as did his aged predecessor's. He was born in Rochester, Ill., spent his early years in Oklahoma and Colorado. But his musical grounding was of the best. He studied in Europe with Nikisch and Ysaye, served as concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, gave many successful recitals throughout the Continent. When he settled in the U. S. it was as concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. From San Francisco, home of Menuhin and Ricci, spread his first fame as a teacher...