By Phyllis McGinley The New Yorker, November 1 , 1958P. 39 Grandeur, farewell.
The New Yorker, November 1 , 1958P. 39 Grandeur, farewell.
Dettori's other rides today: 2.30pm Ian's Dream (trained by Jeremy Noseda), 4.25pm Piri Wango (Ger Lyons), 5pm Grandeur (Noseda).
Roger was a towering figure in the breeding, showing and owning of dogs, specifically Afghan Hounds, since the early 1970s and making history for winning over 300 Best in Show awards with his family's 100 Grandeur champions.
What there is on the QM 2 is grandeur: lashings of it, Bel-Air baroque, heavy on the upholstery.
Starting with the gracefully intimate Quartet No. 3 in D (Op. 18, No. 3) and moving through the more extroverted No. 9 in C (Op. 59, No. 3) to the grandeur of No. 12 in E flat (Op. 127), the players gave a compressed but dramatic overview of Beethoven's steadily expanding harmonic and structural canvas.
Rising up just 27 miles from here in its 14,110-foot grandeur, Pikes Peak is a resonant symbol of the West.
A squat, angular structure plastered with grimy grey tiles on a short, treeless street, the apartment block is as far as central Paris gets from 19th-century grandeur.
PAGE 36 Desert Grandeur in Arizona Hopi artisans turn clay into ancient designs, and in Monument Valley, nature has shaped a backdrop fit for Hollywood.
The clubhouse, with its wooden walls, leather club chairs, and plaques on the wall commemorating member firsts (like the summit of Mount Everest in 1953), has a somewhat faded 20th-century grandeur that might come across as outdated to younger members.
"They've been telling us not to throw things overboard," said Margaret Alford, a passenger on the 900-foot Grandeur of the Seas, which made its Monterey stopover as part of a trip of California ports and Mexico.
