Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks with U.S. postwar planners was England's pink-cheeked, birdlike Sir William Beveridge, with his bride. The author of Britain's famed proposal for "cradle to grave" security through compulsory insurance kept his arrival secret for two days, finally emerged at a press conference in the sumptuous offices of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...conventional screen version of 73-year-old Booth Tarkington's tale of a stagestruck small-town girl. This juvenile darling (Judy Garland) gets to Broadway before you can say Jake Shubert, marries a great producer (Van Heflin), and is soon seen swaying in black tulle in a super-sumptuous musical show staged by the lucky fellow...
...chemical laboratory, however, proved worthier of the historic hall. In still recent times it became a leading chemical research center under such men as Richards, Sanger, and Baxter. The laboratories moved to sumptuous Mallinckrodt and Converse in 1928, but Ec A students in Boylston 24 still wonder what the faucets...
...Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox) pipes sumptuous Monty ("The Beard") Woolley out of his wheel chair for the first time since he began playing The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Jan. 26) three years ago. The change is good for him. The belligerent old nanny goat turns into a very human portrait of a crotchety, kindly Englishman caught in France by the Nazi invasion. But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children...
...Japs were coming to the Harmonic Club in Batavia, to the sumptuous Grand Hotel Preanger in Bandung, to the Navy Club in Surabaya, where Conrad Helfrich had passed many solid Dutch afternoons in drink and talk. They were coming to the tin mines, the oil wells, the rice sawahs, the cinchona groves, the rubber plantations where for money and empire many a Dutchman had sweated out his life. To Conrad Helfrich, as to all true colonial Dutchmen, these islands were home in a sense that Holland never could be. Now Hitler had Holland, and the Indies was their only home...