Word: sumptuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swift-rushing River Salzach in the Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
...that the plot of Camillo will be more or less familiar to everyone, the French outline with charming delicacy the story of the little grisette who, coming to Paris with much beauty and no money, sets out upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks...
Since the two countries are worlds apart in spirit and institutions, the pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
Most luxurious of all Wagons-Lits trains are now its all-steel, so-called ''Pullmans," sumptuous sitting-room cars with chairs and tables, first introduced on the Paris-London Golden Arrow. But to Europeans the train of glamor remains the Orient Express, weathered and creaky though many of its sleepers...
...William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...