Word: splendorful
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...Reverend Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo spoke the Commoner's funeral oration before a crowded church: "There was a threefold splendor about this noble man. . . . He had a capacity for noble living. . . . He had a deep capacity for love. . . . He had a rich capacity for faith. . . . God bless and hallow the heritage and memory of William Jennings Bryan...
...when quizzes are corrected and report cards made out, instead of a cigar, bridge and radio at the Faculty Club, he permits himself to muse on humanities that are "shop" to most of his profession. Andivius Hedulio (1921) was the rich biography of a Roman youth in the tawny splendor of the Augustan Age. Now Scholar White fleshes in that (violet-eyed, dusky-haired) laconic lady who dislocated the destinies of Troy...
Indeed, an event of this kind in Manhattan has come to be incomplete without Mr. Collier, the boy from the South who has collected a fortune from his control of streetcar advertising. With befitting splendor, he played host to all 500 chiefs at Luna Park, dined them, sent them forth to seek amusements under the gaudy arc lights-free of charge...
JOHN L. SULLIVAN-R. F. Dibble- Little, Brown ($3.00). Lonely in their libraries, sat Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes. From a dusty railway coach in the Back Bay station, with splendor in his mien and whiskey on his breath, emerged a bull-necked Irishman. Milling crowds roared greeting. "I thank you one and all very kindly," rumbled the Irishman. "Yours truly, John L. Sullivan...
...When Karl was alive, Horthy publicly declared that he was keeping the throne warm for his Monarch. After Karl's death in 1922, both he and his Premier, Count Bethlen, were known to have expressed themselves privately in favor of "King" Otto. But Horthy's love of splendor, his occupation of the Royal Palaces, his insistence upon a regal etiquette, have combined to discredit his intentions...