Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are to be one or two or three "small college" groups of buildings erected in the near future and placed probably along the river front, from the Freshman dormitories eastwards, a splendid site will be available for the new Church Situated on the Memorial Driveway, on the banks of the Charles, it can be given a worthy and imposing setting...
...Tire-man Harvey Samuel Firestone, third member of a famed triumvirate. Mr. Firestone went to his estate last week, soon to be visited by the Messrs. Ford and Edison. Surveying Miami's posthurricane repairs and development, he said, with all the pride of a native, "The city looks splendid...
...Clemenceau's Klotz the splendid sanitarium seemed preferable to jail-where Governor Emile Moreau of the Bank of France was trying to put him. To stern Governor Moreau a forgery is a forgery, even when perpetrated by a Senator of France. The nature of the forged paper was naturally not disclosed by the Bank; but such pressure was applied to M. Klotz that he tendered his resignation as Senator and submitted to arrest, pleading insanity, asking to be sent to Malmaison...
...Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic expedition, wirelessed him Captain Wilkins' achievement. The message went 10,000 miles to the Ross sea where Commander Byrd, last week, was ice-locked on his City of New York. He rewired the Times an invitation to Captain Wilkins: "Hearty congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you will find a warm welcome if you fly to our base." This message the Times forwarded by land telegraph to the Examiner in San Francisco, 3,000 miles across this continent; the Examiner pushed it by wireless the 7,500 miles to Captain Wilkins...
...spirit, wayward, melancholy, and splendid, belonged to the Renaissance-the English Renaissance, in which the conflicting currents of ambition, learning, religion, and lasciviousness were so subtly intervolved...