Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
Twenty Toasts. Molotov himself set the social ball rolling with a lavish luncheon which moved on, course by relentless course, until 20 toasts had been offered and the clock stood at 3:30 p.m. By week's end Cordell Hull stood thoroughly in awe of Russian hospitality, reportedly groaned to a colleague: "I wish to preserve my strength for this highly important work we have come here to do with our Russian and British friends...
...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...
...years Portugal watched the dregs of World War II drift down from France and Spain across her borders. Rich refugees in dust-covered Rolls-Royces, tattered fugitives from Axis terror, arrogant diplomats and businessmen from Italy and Germany crowded the narrow streets of her aged, smelly towns. Over the lavish seaside resort of Estoril the wide-winged U.S. Clippers glided down to Lisbon's Tagus River and at the inland Cintra airport planes of the Lufthansa and the British Airways stood side by side. Portugal was open to all warring nations. Neutrality was profitable...
...Even with out a calculator, that added up to a round $1,200,000 for Fridén's own 50% share in the business-more than enough to stock his 600-acre Alameda County ranch with fine palomino horses and Hereford cattle, and to pay for the lavish swimming and riding parties he likes...