Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names and addresses of business firms which he said could confirm his statements, he described the President's San Vicente country estate (which Perón calls a modest rural retreat) as a lavishly decorated multimillion-peso layout with a large swimming pool, elaborate lighting and watering systems, sumptuous furnishings and marble fireplaces. Cattáneo's charges and his offer of proof made scarcely a ripple in B.A.; no newspaper even dared print them...
...fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
...years, a favorite joke in the West was that the people of Moscow had a clean, sumptuous, artistically constructed subway, admirable in every respect except one: there were no trains. Unlike many other jokes about Soviet Russia, this one contained no grain of truth. The Moscow subway trains run, and they run well...
Lorenzo ("The Magnificent") de' Medici had cause to be restless in his grave: a go-getting U.S. real-estate agency took a full-page ad in Town & Country offering bourgeois buyers the sumptuous Villa Medici that he built overlooking Florence in 1460. Asking price...
...Papa." To union members, David Dubinsky is known fondly as "Papa" behind his back, as "Dubinsky" or "D.D." to his face. Waiting to see him in the reception room of his sumptuous office, the visitor does not have to be told when the boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with...