Word: lavishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a self-made man, he is pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...
...many of the lavish spreads looked confusingly like the advertisements they adjoined. And like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...
...sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President to set foot in the U.S. Embassy...
...Denver's rarefied air which made Hearst look stuffy. They raked the town for every bit of scandal, labeled their sheet "Your Big Brother, champion of every good, pure, noble, holy and righteous cause." Sample causes: crusades against Governors, mudslinging matches with Senators, bullyragging attacks on advertisers, lavish parties for children, sick dogs and horses...
Another of Europe's little kings last week toppled from a theoretical throne. In Tirana, a Constituent Assembly announced the end of the 17-year-old Albanian monarchy, proclaimed a republic under leftist, authoritarian Premier Enver Hoxha. The announcement was followed by a lavish 101-gun salute and two days of public revelry...