Word: splendorful
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...hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie Melba,* prima donna, Dame of the British Empire, who had set that night for her farewell appearance in opera...
...splendor of granite towers watched his adolescence. He was born in Philadelphia, in 1860, and worked as a clerk in a railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine?when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from...
...born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth century when the splendor and power of Rome had largely disappeared, Leptis Magna was deserted by its inhabitants and for a number of centuries stood exposed to the desert sands which finally covered it almost entirely. As Pompeil had been covered and preserved by the ashes of Mt. Vesuvius, so Leptis Magna was kept...
...this don Quixote, in the splendor of his struggle, forgets, perhaps, the necessity of an occasional bit of drabness in landscape as well as in life. There are still those who enjoy the mists of a dull November morning in a marsh without "Even your best friend won't tell you" to worry the drab winged duck. Billboards may support nature admirably--it is only fair to realize how admirably they can nurse her failings. Yet for some they will never need to--nature, even in New Jersey or Nebraska, has an occasional good friend...
Perhaps pragmatism is to be the essential philosophy of the western world. Surely materialism itself is not far removed from this science which must swing back to man, which cannot direct itself into the unknown for the pleasure and splendor of the voyage Most successful adventures have had the pawn shop behind them, but with the pawn shop forgotten...