Word: splendour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried humans ("Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it"), and produces Poetry with alarming regularity...
...bearers of light Made bold retreat Silent dignified farewell Pomp and splendour, saving grace The spoilt child Amidst a thousand shells Withdrew...
...former Byzantine Regency splendour, little survives; the bunched-up seats of the balcony are basically the same-although decently robed in new chintz ("There was so much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President...