Word: sumptuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where steelmen met to plot the course of their empires. In 1927 she entertained Queen Marie of Rumania, laying the table with her gold service. When the Queen arrived she and seven of the guests were ushered into a special dining room upstairs, while the Garys supped in the sumptuous dining room below. Whether this was the Queen's wish, no one has ever discovered. Abroad the steelmaster's wife, witty and agreeable, was received with some warmth. At home chary Manhattan matrons were more reserved...
Catherine the Great (London Films) is more tender than The Private Life of Henry the VlII (Charles Laughton), more glittering than Queen Christina (Greta Garbo). But what makes this sumptuous pageant of antique Russia noteworthy is the presence in the title rôle of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner...
Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...Caesars could not have built it!" admiring friends have agreed with Frank J. Gould. It cost him 100,000,000 francs ($6,200,000 at current exchange), was insured for 47,000,000 francs. He called it the Palais de la Mediterranee, looked upon it as a sumptuous temple to opera, drama, gastronomie and baccarat. Nobody could deny that it was at least the largest gambling casino in Europe, equipped with one of the best theatres and finest restaurants in France. The Palais never paid, but Mr. Gould, who has hotel properties in Nice, used to say, "Never mind...
...Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva" and Mmes Borah and Pittman, whose Senator husbands were respectively out of town and ill, attended...