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...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...
Italy has no No. 2 Fascist, no political heir apparent to Benito Mussolini, but in Berlin high-pitched, vegetarian, nonsmoking Adolf Hitler knows only too well the sumptuous apartment of the bass-voiced, carnivorous, robust No. 2 Nazi...
...evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island in the Bahamas. The refugees spent the night aboard, next day flying on to Nassau. There Machado, haggard in his crumpled white linen suit (he had had no time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good. I expect to sleep most of the day." Britons thought it possible he might sleep well...
...matters last week to take part in the Conservative debate. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain hewed close to the line of tight, efficient Conservative Party management, left the Baldwins happy in No. 11 while he made Empire policy at his office in the Treasury and in his snug, sumptuous home at No. 37 Eaton Square...
...capital is really schaffendes and good or likely to be reclassified as raffendes, with ensuing Nazi reprisals. Prominent Nazis like Dr. Goebbels have of course no worries about whether their capital is schaffendes or raffendes. They can do no wrong. "The Doctor" lives in markedly sumptuous style with his beauteous wife, their baby daughter, and her little son by a previous marriage. When enemies charged that Frau Goebbels is distantly descended from a Jewish family named Friedlander, "The Doctor" produced no evidence but flew into a towering, effective rage. "Let whosoever desires to do so look upon my wife...