Word: splendorful
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...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...
Richness & Tricks. The program started with NBC's Correspondent Frank Bourgholtzer following a Russian general up the Grand Kremlin Palace's Staircase of Honor, and the staircase alone-16 ft. wide, with gold-and-red carpeting, 58 steps and four landings-was a surprise of splendor. But with jewels and thrones, high vaulting domes and sprays of filigreed gold, such a glut of richness followed that when Bourgholtzer and the general returned at the end of the hour to the Staircase of Honor, it seemed little more than a nicely gilded stepladder...