Word: splendorful
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...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...
...lira. Millions of hours of extra labor at no extra cost will provide a surplus for the carrying out of II Duce's triumphant program of building up the army and navy, of restoring the public buildings and monuments of Rome and other Italian cities to the splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni loomed of major import. Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders...
Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
...plans drawn for a magnificent 55 story hotel. Then they went to bankers to negotiate a loan. The bankers promised to furnish $16,000,000 but wished certain changes made in the plans. They thought that 13 stories should be lopped off the design and some of the splendor eliminated. So plans for a 42 story hotel were prepared. Then for an unpublished reason the members of the syndicate fell out with one another...
...Louis XIV affair of such splendor that a prurient public demanded to know by what right the son of Henry B. Hyde (founder of the Equitable Life) entertained like an emperor. At the next Princeton Commencement festive graduates carried a three-sided transparency inscribed: "The Simple Life; The Strenuous Life; The Equitable Life." Finally Mr. Charles Evans Hughes bounded into prominence by conducting an investigation into the methods of insurance concerns, which bore fruit in much salutory legislation...