Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Britain's King-Emperor, Japan's Son of Heaven provides no "courts" at which dowagers and debutantes can curtsy, but like George V, Hirohito does give garden parties. Last week 7,000 socialite Japanese, many in gorgeous court kimonos of rarest silk, and some 700 foreigners among whom missionaries, businessmen and journalists outnumbered diplomats, arrived for the Imperial...
...every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages...
...world. Ten years later came demonetization of silver and panic. Tabor, in the belief that his silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came an end to the story of the fabulous Tabors...
...Premier I'll ride to the opening of the Legislature of Ontario on a bicycle!" (TIME, July 2). Last week the people's "Mitch" in spats, cutaway and top hat rode to the Legislature's opening in a flashy new Hudson sedan, while gorgeous Marina Blue-gowned, orchid-corsaged Mrs. Hepburn followed in a flashy blue Buick...
...gwine tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million savage and uncounted blacks is emphatically the suave cream in Africa's strong coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering Lion of Judah, the reason is that he profoundly understands his people. But, in their private apartments, the Empress Menen takes dictation and pounds a typewriter, thereby assisting the Emperor to turn...