Word: sumptuous
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Baron Kijuro Shidehara sat in his sumptuous, high ceilinged office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry last week, seeking by every means to prevent a clash between Chinese and Japanese in China, and to persuade Great Britain and the U. S. not to follow up their shelling of Nanking (TIME, April 4), with still more vigorous measures to protect Occidental lives and property...
...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...
...heavy-swung, dark-curtained private car rumbled from Mexico City last week to Laredo, Texas. It was the Hidalgo, sumptuous equipage of rich Seņor Alberto Pani, said to be the only Mexican statesman whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers (TIME...
...Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden. It mattered little to Chicagoans that her voice was some times cloudy, sometimes thin, that tones were tossed this way and that, sometimes too negligible to be tones...
...Denmark, sister of both King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway. (The three last named were children of King Frederik VIII of Denmark.) Bourgeois Stockholmers nodded approval at this celebration of Leopold's birthday not at the Royal Palace but in the quietly sumptuous apartment of Prince Carl...