Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls himself "Old Earl," gets up as early as 5:30 in the morning to let visitors wander into the governor's mansion. He appoints "colonels" with a lavish hand (some 250 to date) and presents lesser fry with penknives-after first exacting a penny so "a friendship won't be cut." He enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti...
...total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present-a $2.50 pen & pencil...
...Darryl Zanuck and Rita were along), ordered dinner at the popular bistro Félix au Port. The table was on the sidewalk, and almost at once a crowd gathered. When it turned out that they were not autograph hunters but merely folk grumbling at the sight of a lavish dinner, the party moved inside...
...dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
...Smith's sister, devoured-and rejected-the theories of Walter Pater. In Florence, he earned a bare living escorting tourists through the galleries until, in 1894, he published his Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four handy, brilliant guidebooks which netted him enough to buy a lavish 17th Century villa high above the Arno valley...