Ba erased the doubts prompted by a disappointing beginning to life on Tyneside with a splendid hat-trick which left Newcastle celebrating their best opening to a season for more than a decade.
Sam Tomkins suffered defeat on his debut for the New Zealand Warriors, with another of the Fijian fliers who seem to be spreading through the competition, the former union sevens international Semi Radradra, scoring a splendid hat-trick for Parramatta.
Kureishi was delighted by the honor; he and his three sons went to the palace dressed in morning suits, while his partner wore a splendid feathered hat.
He wore a splendid silver hat, like an upturned jelly mould, and carried a shotgun over his shoulder.
When English miners tunnelled under the walls and forced its surrender in September, Henry is said to have thrown his splendid hat in the air in exuberance, and it was caught and kept as a souvenir of the victory by one of his courtiers.
Perhaps it's the echoing of torn loyalties; perhaps it's all those breeches, bodices and splendid hats.
I am reminded that here, unlike in my own casual parish, women wear splendid hats and gloves to church.
Rather, this play, which ran at Second Stage Theater in New York, is about the splendid hats that African-American women wear down South.
A splendid second-half hat-trick from DJ Campbell, who is on loan from Leicester City and will be unable to play in the play-off final if his parent club get through against Cardiff City on Wednesday night, swept Nottingham Forest aside to earn a trip to Wembley.
You can outfit yourself at Paragon, which offers equipment and warm clothing and a splendid collection of winter hats.
In a splendid new recording by the Ives Ensemble on Hat Art, the piece is five hours long: 293 minutes, to be exact.
