Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Washington cocktail-bibbers set out for the four-story, grey stone Yugoslav embassy in delighted throngs one night last week to attend a party celebrating the sixth year of Tito's rule. It seemed certain to produce gossip. If Tito provided the sumptuous buffet usual at such affairs, the guests could not only eat well, but make ironic asides about the Yugoslav famine. If the table was bare, they could at least have the spartan pleasure of watching high U.S. officials-who had accepted in droves-struggling to be polite while hungry...
...sense of guilt over the death of his pious mother and a confused resentment against his testy old parish priest and the Roman Catholic Church itself. Obsessed with the idea of making up for his mother's death, he determines that the church must pay for a sumptuous funeral. When the priest balks, the truck driver murders him. Then a younger, understanding priest (Dana Andrews) and a detective (Robert Keith) stand by until the killer gives himself away and collapses into repentance...
...wooing of a flute, she and her followers brought the cult of chivalric love to perfection. But the idyl of manners was brief. Henry sniffed sedition in the antics of her preux chevaliers, broke up the court, and hauled Eleanor back to an English keep. She languished there, in sumptuous jail, for 15 years...
Besides rowing and movie-going, the crew will have the benefit of lush surroundings, sumptuous meals, and a first class croquet course...
Twelve millionaires started the Club at the beginning of this century to make use of the State-built speedway. They built a sumptuous clubhouse where WBZ's transmitter now sits, and in 1914 put up one of the finest stables in New England. The Club soon grew into a great social institution and outlived all the similar driving clubs around Boston. Its colorful races during the twenties made the Club a haven for New England's trotters and pacers. But the Club's pageantry declined as the old-timers, raised in the tradition of pure harness racing, began...