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...lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop; the New York Times''s Brooks Atkinson headlined...
...people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly for years. With unconscious wistfulness, she explains: "Only the busy person is happy...
...Easily amused Siamese laughed & laughed when the Russians, for their headquarters, took over two "hotels" which had been the gaudiest bordellos in Siam...
...toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians still remember the ditty...
They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...