Word: sumptuous
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...ornate and sumptuous new Casino at San Remo, Italian Riviera, has sprung rapidly into smart, international favor, since it was recently authorized by Signor Benito Mussolini as the sole resort in Italy where roulette wheels may twirl (TIME...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
Since then they have been international stars; but with advancing age their popularity has waned in the U. S. and waxed in Europe. Their recently built and extravagantly sumptuous home in Paris created a furore with its immense rooms so arranged that the colors of the walls & ceilings can be changed at will...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, estranged father of six-year-old King Mihai, suddenly moved from his retreat near Paris to Nice, French Riviera, and stopped last week at the dazzlingly white and sumptuous Hotel Negresco...
...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...