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...Commonwealth was framed in the old meeting house, and the General Court convened there, until a small-pox epidemic drove the austere legislators away. During the Revolution a provincial congress appeared in the church, and Lafayette himself smiled benignly from the Commencement platform in 1824. But the glorious days of the meeting house were about to end. A schism between Unitarians and Trinitarians resulted in the abandonment of the church by both parties...
...been dreaming out loud; he had not won so much as a centimo in the lottery. Nobody seemed to know just how the phony story of his great luck had originated, but Spain's press had strong suspicions that Dominguín was ravenous for the sort of glorious acclaim he once got by cleanly killing bulls...
...with cute comment and dabs at it with flashy, cosmetical touches of music. But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot quite make Mother Nature look like what he thinks the public wants: a Hollywood glamour girl. "Disney has a perverse way," sighs one observer, "of finding glorious pearls and then using them for marbles...
...College, the prep school at Mill Hill. He would like to go over and have a look at the place. Is that all right with you?" So Christopher had his look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing with the glorious tales he told. The first thing old Bumblie did when he got to Marlborough, he said, was to address the entire school, masters and all. Then he sacked the matron ("She's a bit of a stinker, it seems"). After that, he gave the headmaster a terrific wigging...
...certain that no man ever said to Alice B. Toklas: "If you could only cook!" Small, wiry and quite bereft of feminine charm, she was once cattily described as "the lady with the melancholy nose." But cook she could-or at least she went into the kitchen armed with glorious recipes...