Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendid shilling...
...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...
Last week the splendid shilling arrived in Bucharest, was duly deposited in the royal trousers. To London went a royal message...
Heads Up! Routine musicomedy, nautical, garnished with splendid new numbers by Lorenz (words) Hart and Richard (tunes) Rodgers ("Why do You Suppose?" "It Must Be Heaven," "A Ship Without a Sail") dervish whirls by shapely Barbara Newberry, croaking comedy by Victor Moore who thinks a mutiny is an afternoon performance...
Obviously, every sport does not present equal opportunities for the promotion of the intramural objectives. The football field, for example, is a splendid laboratory for experiments in all these aims. The tennis court, on the other hand, does not provide such valuable opportunities. Much greater lessons have been learned and taught on the gridiron than on the court. Nevertheless, the individual game is stressed just as much, if not more, than the team game because the former provides the student with a type of exercise he can use after graduation...