Word: lavishness
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...just half an hour, Kennedy was airborne again, on the way to spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity...
While loyal to Menon-who is not accompanying him on the trip-Nehru is plainly troubled by U.S. criticism. He even had a lavish-for Nehru-compliment for his hosts: "The U.S. has done much to advance human civilization. It has something much more than materialism. It has spiritualism and idealism and many things in common with India...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...
...Berlin outran buyers' advertisements 8 to 1. Many advertisers played openly on apprehension. Asked one: "Who would like to move his business to Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...
...year club is Ippolita, written by 75-year-old Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Duke of Pirajno. The resemblances between the two novels do not end there. They are both set in the 19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books share the style of an ironic, sometimes witty guided tour through a family album. Lampedusa was the greater craftsman and the subtler artist. Where The Leopard became an elegy for an aristocratic...