Word: splendorful
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...cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels the note novelty. Echoed into mind are the arenas of Tiberius, the lists of Provence...
Connoisseurs who inspected the Augustus when she docked found her interior decoration rather commonplacely Italian, in Renaissance and various provincial styles. The Augustus has not the vast, gloomy, cathedral splendor of the Roma, her sister ship (in hull dimensions only). The Augustus has not the rampant, modernist decore of the new Saturnia, a rival Italian motor ship of the Cosulich Line...
...palaces at Versailles are reminiscent of glittering splendor and jewelled magnificence during the Sun King's reign. But Mr. Forester points out that the palaces were drafty and uncomfortable; the magnificence fatuous, futile, and unjustly extracted from a suffering people...
...daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable. Then he snatched time to write the paper's weekly feuilleton or "feature," which was most often a Socialist tract or homily, occasionally a short story, and only once under Mussolini achieved the serialized splendor of a Grande Romanzo...
BURLESQUE-Hal Skelly and Barbara Stanwyck still exploiting the sorry splendor of backstage love (TIME, Sept...