Word: flossiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasure domes built along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club...
Brownells headed up a receiving line to launch the flossiest debut dance of the capital's coming-out season...
...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...complaining to French officials in Corsica that his assigned quarters of 37 hotel bedrooms had bad plumbing, leaky roofs, and cramped his style of living, Morocco's exiled former Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef persuaded his keepers to move him into 50 rooms in the island's flossiest hotel. The Sultan's ménage: 14 concubines, two wives, two sons, two daughters, three servants...
...Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes, 500,000 acres) to watch the coronation year's flossiest society wedding in Edinburgh's ancient St. Giles Cathedral...