Word: splendors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
...Judge, Junior, the good old customs will go on. What does it matter if the authors are strayed revellers, what if the number is diminishing of those who still care enough to illuminate their college, their class and their own family name with the last glints of a faded splendor...