Everyone else had a splendid time [but] the pageantry was simply pageantry".
In the song, some good ol' boys drive around in enormous pick-up trucks having a splendid time.
Anyone who has not read Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey (Chatto & Windus) can have a splendid time reading it this summer.
As long as I have money, foreigners will bow to my cash.' " Most mainland Chinese vacationers have a splendid time abroad.
NEITHER cholera, nor humidity, nor rioting in Lagos is preventing fans from having a splendid time at Africa's premier soccer tournament.
As she demonstrates the funky chicken, it's clear Reeves is having a splendid time, as is the audience member in his 60s rejuvenated by the loveliness of Jimmy Mack.
During a trip to Sturbridge, the small Colonial town that has been re-created in Massachusetts, a family we know had a splendid time watching craftsmen working as craftsmen used to work long ago, but were disappointed to find that the candle-dipping demonstration was not in progress.
All this worthy rewilding doesn't stop you having a splendid time playing the country gent or lady for the week: there's the full range of Highland sports – deer stalking (at least until the wolves take over, to show how it's supposed to be done), clay-pigeon shooting, fly fishing and riding.
The New Yorker, November 23, 1957 P. 48 During a trip to Sturbridge, the small Colonial town that has been re-created in Massachusetts, a family we know had a splendid time watching craftsmen working as craftsmen used to work long ago, but were disappointed to find that the candle-dipping demonstration was not in progress.
They'd been gently debauching themselves around Soho from bar to restaurant to club and back again for what seemed like a week, having a splendid time, culminating in Bacon tripping up on a kerb, falling in the gutter and finding himself unequal to the task of getting up again.
