Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quiet grandeur of His hand on them...
...have chosen you to interpret for us to Harvard University our ideals of American harmony, our fervent adherence to cause of right, which the American of today is endeavoring to infuse into international order, and our boundless admiration for the moral grandeur of the United States, which assures the coming of peace among nations...
...beginning of the German War, which is known to people as the Great War or the Terrible War, according as they are influenced by its grandeur or its agony, it was freely prophesied that the world would see a renaissance of literature, and that poets, stirred on by magnificent deeds, would write this present age down to everlasting fame...
...letters from the field are more simply written. They tell of incidents that impressed the writers, they do not often theorize and when they do, they have enthusiasm. Speaking of men and things seen on the trips, they are letters home from a strange land of moral grandeur and unceasing heroism...
There is a wealth of spectacular grandeur, color, magnificence, in Sir Herbert Tree's version of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII," which opened at the Hollis Theatre last night. The parts, are in the main, well played, the costumes highly effective, and it is indeed a great pity that better settings could not have been designed, for many of the otherwise impressive scenes. Why in a play so impressionistic as this, a play where the attention is focused not upon the scenery, but on the players, should this attention of ours be diverted by a wavering tree trunk, grotesque lillies jutting...