Word: sunkenness
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...Cavalier's famed sunken gardens were not yet in bloom, but every day the hotel management sent up baskets of spring flowers, mainly King Alfred jonquils. The P.M. ate in the hotel dining room, and Chef Gene Gualko successfully stimulated his appetite with all sorts of southern dishes and sea food. At almost every meal, Mackenzie King ordered Virginia bacon. Once he got away with two whole broiled lobsters and was "crazy about them...
Rosoff quickly branched out into building roads and canals, raising sunken ships, running bus lines, etc. He made and lost several fortunes. It was not until 1923, when he discovered Tammany Hall and the political technique of wangling subway contracts, that he really hit the jackpot...
...along the back and milled around the corridors outside, trying to get in. On the floor below, Senators began to arrive, pumping each other's hands, looking for their desks and seats for their friends. At 18 minutes to noon, Bilbo stumped in-reddish brown suit, sagging paunch, sunken cheeks, hair slicked down on his round skull...
...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes had been the first reporter to check in, and the P-D had consistently run more coverage than any other U.S. paper. He put up cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when...