Word: sumptuous
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...back to what it was doing." At week's end, Playwright Miller had six more days in which to name his onetime Red associates for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee or risk not getting a passport for an English honeymoon with Marilyn. Optimistically, he had already leased a sumptuous love nest in London's suburbs...
...American setting. The present production puts the story across with great gusto thanks to the work of a generally talented cast, greatly aided by director Stephen Aaron and musical director Howard Brown. What it lacks in polish, it almost always makes up for in vigor. Backed up by the sumptuous settings and lighting of Webster Lithgow and Jordan Jelks, the actors really go to town--especially in the ladies department...
...looks younger, has greying blond hair and pale blue eyes behind heavy spectacles, is a lively conversationalist and good orator, with the fine Tuscan accent that is highly respected in Italy. To give his children a normal family life, he has declined to move into the sumptuous Quirinal Palace, instead lives modestly in a four-room apartment in Rome with his second wife (his first wife died before the war) and their two children (aged 12 and 11), often walks to work. His hobby: model trains, which take up half of his small apartment...
...early riser, the President held his first Cabinet meeting at 7 a.m. on the day after the inauguration, reminded his ministers that he firmly intends to push ahead with his economic program and maintain "a high standard of administrative morality." That night he spoke at a sumptuous banquet (caviar, lobster, pheasant) for the 59 foreign delegations assembled...
...expenses have probably not figured to any great extent in the magazine's frequently hazardous financial situation. Since new buildings inevitably stimulate extravagant parties, however, it might be said that the Advocate's buildings have indirectly caused its downfall. Parties, at any rate, have been extravagant, and the most sumptuous ones have always been the Decennial dinners. The first one, held in 1876, and called afterwards the "great" dinner, was said to be "almost oppressive in its grandeur." Staged at the Parker House, it took three years...