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...Senator Borah had steered it through legislative tangles, had secured for it the right of way over the Cruiser Bill (see col. 2). Crowds gathered in the galleries; political correspondents prepared to hear and to record history. The Kellogg treaty was ready to go over in bursts of Borahtorical splendor...
...almost too well done. We become satiated with an excess of splendor. Let these ladies see to their makeup. . . . How it is to be cut down I cannot imagine. ... I ... I have seen ... I ... I ..." -St. John Ervine, in the World...
...whole golden gamut of romance, always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero...
...entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics of vulgar splendor and reckless abandon, recorded so readably in Jubilee...
...said that some of the great inhabitants have tired of the super-splendor of these evenings and stay sternly at home. But even they could not be entirely unconscious of an opening at Sid Grauman's famed Chinese Theatre last fortnight. Mr. Grauman, conspiring with the Warner Brothers, whose picture he was showing, studded the hills with searchlights. Red, green, and yellow, they scanned the sky by scores. For miles and miles they traced the night with tidings that something stupendous was in progress. That something...