Word: sumptuously
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...Paris' historic Ile St. Louis in a sumptuous old house crammed with exquisite bibelots and first editions lives millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Although intellectually cultivated, refined and suave, M. Blum affects a shaggy and haphazard air. He delights to rush among the Paris rabble and deliver mixed Socialist-Communist harangues. He annoys...
...discarded for the high hat. . . . Yes, Governor Smith, it was as difficult to conceive you at that Liberty League banquet as it would be to imagine George Washington waving a cheery good-by to the ragged and bleeding band at Valley Forge while he rode forth to dine in sumptuous luxury with smug and sanctimonious Tories in nearby Philadelphia. . . . You approved NRA, you approved farm relief, you urged Federal spending and public works, you urged Congress to cut red tape and confer power on the Executive, you urged autocratic power for the President. . . . The New Deal was the platform...
...cigaret factory. She sang the Habanera belligerently, as if defying the world. She turned on bewildered Don Jose like a tigress, sidled up to the captain of the guards like an oldtime cinema vamp. The stage scarcely seemed to hold her. Ponselle's voice is naturally sumptuous, but she was too busy ranting to do justice by Bizet's music...
...white Governor's mansion they and a group of Kansas editors and publishers including Senator Arthur Capper, got a warm welcome from black-eyed, young Mrs. Landon II. Hogan, the Landon chauffeur, was summoned from the garage and clapped into white cotton gloves to help serve a sumptuous luncheon of chicken broth, steamed oysters, rice croquettes, a green vegetable, corn bread, pumpkin pie and coffee prepared by Daisy, the Landon cook...
...person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent the night right here!" bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped a towel around his middle, wiped out an obviously unused frying pan. After more posing outside in the rain, he changed his wet shirt, pulled out for Boston...