Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means, by Edwin P. Hoyt. He could have lived in splendor on the take from just one of his spectacular swindles, but for Means the joy of a lie was in living it, so he conned the rich (mostly women) the slow, dramatic...
...molder into drafty decay. But many of them have been updated with hot running water and good food, and have opened as inns. More and more tourists, tired of Hiltonia, have sought them out, willingly sacrificing a color telephone in every room for a sense of history and splendor. The best of the current batch of castle-hotels offer not only the built-in magic of a legendary site but also the charm of Old World prices-just the thing for a democrat who feels, as Toots Shor once observed of millionaires: "I don't want...
Doctor No. This Ian Fleming thriller presents Secret Agent James Bond (Sean Connery) in all his exquisite martini-and-mayhem splendor. Maybe a bit too splendid to be true...
...cost $36 million-more than twice as much as a building constructed to the usual speculative standards. On the basis of net rental income, the formula on which other Manhattan office buildings are taxed, Seagram would have had a tax evaluation of about $17 million. But Seagram's splendor prompted the Tax Commission to reason that the company had spent the extra money for prestige, and prestige should be taxable. The Seagram company took its case to court and lost...
...military. Marisol, it seems, was doing a sculpture of a friend, using a barrel for the torso, when she realized that if she tipped the barrel sideways she could have the torso of a horse. Legs and head were added, and then the two generals in all their epauletted splendor...