Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating to a man's character: he has given Henry a killer's coldly reflective eyes...
Fair Fare? Chalk pocketed enough in these deals to live in splendor. His twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels...
...Stone played a truly impressive Mendip, at times compelling, at times dynamic, always in control as the man who owed it to himself to hang. His magnetism almost steals the show; but there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...
...major retreat from his "purification" campaign, Prime Minister Fidel Castro restored legal gambling in all its old splendor of brocade draperies, deep carpets, clicking dice and turning wheels. Running the show from behind the scenes were the same U.S. mobsters who bossed gambling for Batista...
Enough has been said of the comparative splendor of Quincy-with its spacious suites, privacy, elevators, refrigerators in every room, and the modern Lamont-like library-to raise a serious problem concerning the relative deficiency in the other seven Houses...