Word: lavishness
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Some kind of explanation was needed. Mamie made $25,000 a year as head bookkeeper at the big Detroit architectural engineering firm of Giffels & Vallet (now Giffels & Rossetti). But the Averills lived far beyond the $25,000-a-year scale, with a chauffeured Cadillac, lavish wardrobes, a $300,000 estate in rural Michigan, a home in Florida and a $100,000 hunting lodge in Canada, built to resemble a British castle...
...telling its tale, Saratoga snows cliches, trips over its own gaudy furnishings, and interminably keeps a heroine who was born out of wedlock from entering it. An added trouble: lacking all freshness and zip, the show possesses no compensating charm or style. Everything that Saratoga Trunk scattered with a lavish hand, Saratoga lays on with a heavy...
...than 50 million monkeys and some 50 million cattle roaming unchecked through the land. In the midst of poverty, there are polo-playing maharajahs who are among the world's richest men. And there are Indian millionaires who religiously feed ants to show their reverence for life, and lavish their charity not on hospitals or schools but on retirement farms for aging sacred cows. An estimated 7,000,000 Indians are unemployed; many millions more get work only sporadically. India's food production is at last gaining, but it has a hard time keeping up with the Indian...
...gracious were the bows, so lavish the assurances of esteem, so charming the exchanges of mutual praise, as Britain's Foreign Secretary arrived in Paris last week that one would think Britain and France were on the best of terms. "There is and must be a special relationship between our two countries," smiled Selwyn Lloyd, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville reciprocated with murmurs of "profound solidarity," as the two sat down for talks in a gilded salon of the Quai d'Orsay. At the Elysée Palace, where Lloyd extended France's President...
...industry at its new purity kick that, according to the latest Madison Avenue gag, "CBS is about to move Church of the Air to prime evening time." NBC finally got around to bouncing the admittedly corrupt Tic Tac Dough, chose an apt replacement: Truth or Consequences. Still another lavish NBC giveaway, The Price...