Word: sumptuous
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...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...
Whoopee. "Here is another of Mr. Ziegfeld's sumptuous durbars, a large and glittering ceremonial with Mr. Cantor at the comic centre of its parades. . . . The celebration earns the right to be called magnificent. ... He (Florenz Ziegfeld) employs the expensive Eddie Cantor . . . the prodigal Mr. Urban. ... He inspires the lazy silkworms to weave new and fabulous fabrics. . . ."-Percy Hammond in the Herald Tribune...
...would see the year's best group of contemporary paintings must go to Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Chicago. Nowhere else will the Carnegie Institute's 27th International Exhibition be shown.* Reproductions will be plentiful, but they are makeshifts. They indicate form, com position, but lose the sumptuous significance of color...
...justice to some of the poorer diplomats in Paris, the State Sevres Bureau indicated that they have "double exchanged" principally when driven to do so by the necessity of giving a sumptuous and costly wedding (or other) present...
...They afterwards partook of the general's hospitality at a sumptuous repast prepared under an extensive marquee on his grounds. The Cadets retired at an early hour, and the other company were entertained, and the evening enlivened with the performances of the excellent Cadet band, assisted by a band from Fort Independence...