Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staging the story, for which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant...
...speaking of the Lampoon, Hollister will say: "A recent issue of the Lampoon contained a very discourteous and, in fact, offensive article, burlesquing the splendid gift of a large sum of money from a Yale graduate to Harvard College, to be used in financing and making possible the College House plan. While your committee does not approve of having the college undergraduate publications censored by the college authorities, at the same time we feel that such publications should be more largely influenced by public opinion, not only as held and exerted by the Harvard undergraduates, but also by the graduates...
...13½-ton bell in the clock tower of Britain's Houses of Parliament. The big bell was named "Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...
...Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop peanut shells into the troopers' boot tops, do they...
...when I can to our mother country. It is inspiring to see the roots from which our own great culture has sprung and ennobles our idea of what we should be. If I could change England at all I should pray that she recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after...