Word: gorgeousity
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...Gloucester. But the chief beneficiaries of General Foods Corp.'s expansion are Broker Edward F. ("Lucky Ed") Hutton and his golden-haired, oyster-and-pearl-fond wife, Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of Charles W. Post of Postum and Toastie fame.* Hutton wealth is disbursed in gorgeous grandeur. Invited to the famed Manville-Bernadotte wedding in Pleasantville, N. Y., Mrs. Hutton drove to Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted...
State Show. After three hours, a gorgeous group of peers, officers and diplomats stood in the white and gold throne room of Buckingham Palace, facing two massive folding doors. Calm Helen Wills and 349 other debutantes waited in an adjoining drawing room, shepherded by black, silk-stockinged Gentlemen Ushers with long white wands...
...hugest, most lavishly gorgeous mansion in Dairen-near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea-contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called...
Different only in images and ritual are the Easters of today−in Rome, where the Pope washes the feet of twelve bishops; in Russia, where Christ is supposed to walk through the land disguised as a beggar; in the Philippines, where there are gorgeous parades and cockfights; in Chester and Suffolk (England), where they play ball and dance to music; on Fifth Avenue, Main Street and in Stubbs Corners, where new clothes, pleased smiles and excited conversation are the Easter ritual of people who do not go to church...
...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...