Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Egypt, Fuad's subjects debated what to do with Farouk's empty palaces. Two overcrowded universities wanted to occupy them as classrooms, but one Cairo newspaper argued: let the palaces become museums like Versailles, so that the people might see what lavish living went on near some of the world's slummiest slums. The new de facto ruler of Egypt, General Mohammed Naguib, and his hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, decreed the abolition of the titles of bey and pasha (roughly equivalent to sir and lord). "Call me Hadretkom [mister]," urged an aging pasha...
...William Butler Yeats, is the silent dean of Irish painters. He generally refuses to discuss his art and, when pressed, retorts that his paintings speak for themselves. In a retrospective show in Manhattan last week, 36 of his canvases mutely testified to his long love of misty forms and lavish color...
...stubborn courage. He also combines the simplicity of four centuries of Catholic peasant forebears with some of the acquired awareness (and tinsel knowledge) of Viennese sophisticates. In his well-tailored morning coat, he still looks the farmer, and he seems quite out of place as he sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place: he knows little of crafty diplomacy but has, in the words of a friend, the nerves of a draft horse...
...HOSPITALITY is lavish and memorable when he entertains in his uncle's old private railroad car, the Jomar, which now stands permanently in a barn at the circus winter quarters in Sarasota. The guests are warmed up in the car's pale green drawing room with North's own brand of Old-Fashioneds, then the party moves to the dining room, which is dominated by a large mural of Lady Godiva setting out on her ride. A French chef produces a four-or five-course meal (with three vintage wines), and the meal is rounded out with...
After prolonged ceremonies, a lavish celebration is prepared. The people cut bamboo to fence a dancing area, and build covered seats and sleeping couches all around its margin. An elaborate feast is made ready. The warriors braid their hair, at a sign from the elders, the drums roll and the warriors parade around the dance area showing to their fellow citizens the heads that they have taken...