Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaudy entertainment (for one party, they flooded the main dining room, served dinner on gondolas to the music of imported Venetian gondoliers), they boomed the value of the stock to ?20 a share in three years. This and other triumphs prompted Ritz's millionaire friends to back his fondest dream-a hotel of his own in Paris, which would be "the summum of elegance." Ritz himself saw to it that the new hotel on the Place Vendôme was comparatively small (only 225 rooms), exquisitely furnished (mainly Louis Quinze and Empire), meticulously serviced...
...larger the Democratic percentage. Thus, to arrive at his final winning percentage, Gallup must estimate in advance how many voters will go to the polls. His other headache is doping out the electoral vote; in 1944 Ohio went Republican by only 2/10 of 1% of the ballots. His fondest dream is that Congress will some day abolish the Electoral College...
...plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
They have proved pretty conclusively that they are fine picture makers - with or without Coward. Without a flop to their discredit so far, the trio has Rank's fondest blessings. Cineguild's next job: Oliver Twist...
...right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which bred and bellowed in the wild lemon jungles, ate so many lemons that they made themselves sick...