Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenes presenting a laquacions English waiter are very amusing, and the songs. "Let's Knock Knees." "Needle in a Raystack." "The Continental," and Cole Porter's now classic "Night and Day" are effective. Miss Rogers' gorgeous lumbs are hidden beneath graceful gowns, which is too bad for Miss Rogers and Miss Rogers' fans. The plot is well, we'll skip the plots if you like plots you're wasting your time...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
...sponsors Kent had his Brothers York and Wales, the latter with a snuffly cold. Gorgeous in scarlet and ermine the three brothers left together after Kent had sat for a few moments in the chair of state to the left of the Throne...
Rumor had it (among the spectators of Saturday's game) that Harvard's new, silk football pants were inspired by the gorgeous pantaloons worn by the Indians last weekend. An a matter of fact the opposite was the case...
...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...