Word: sumptuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...
...With its sumptuous trimmings, its kerosene lights and its antiquated heating, the apartment into which a Frenchman moves when the State appoints him Governor of the privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor...
...home on Park Avenue at 61st Street. Then began the parade of Brearley fathers marching their Brearley daughters to school before proceeding to business. Girls who arrived by automobile were thought pretentious. The parade stopped in 1929 when Brearley built and moved again, this time to a sumptuous ten-story structure overlooking the East River at 83rd Street...
...churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with...