Word: gorgeousity
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...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...
...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...