Word: sumptuously
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Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
...cozy inn at Nantes. The son at first became a barrister, defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...
...count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about a wholesale acceptance of the count's kind invitation. Soon all are aboard The Vanguard, most sumptuous yacht of current fiction...
...Union League chefs had outdone themselves. Dinner was sumptuous. Afterwards, the diners removed to the Club's auditorium, Lincoln Hall, where some 3,000 persons and personages were packed in a space designed for 1,200. President Sproul brought all to their feet when he said to President Coolidge...
...sumptuous Castillo de Chapultepec (Castle of Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess...