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gaudy

Brit a celebratory festival or feast held at some schools and colleges
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Gary Sheffield once sported a chip on his shoulder as big as the gaudiest piece of jewelry in his Cartier's starter set.
SWEET SURPRISE; SHEFFIELD'S NEW ATTITUDE BALANCES TEAM
Big game: Host Valencia features the player with the gaudiest numbers after the first round: Eskias McDaniels, a 6-foot-6 senior, had 26 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks.
EISENHOWER DISPLAYS PLENTY OF PUNCH
In the sixties,'' wrote Pete Hamill after Ali lost to Frazier in 1971, ``we still believed in princes, and for a few brief years, one of the gaudiest of American princes of all was a heavyweight prizefighter who called himself Muhammad Ali.
A FEW ROUNDS WITH HEAVYWEIGHT WRITING; `MUHAMMAD ALI READER' HITS ITS JOURNALISTIC MARK
10) Gaudiest driveway: Sylvester Stallone in Coconut Grove, Fla.
IN SEARCH OF CONCRETE CELEBRITY : POUNDING THE PAVEMENT PAYS OFF, BIG TIME
Morris didn't always have the gaudiest ERA; all he did was win the damn game.
COMMENTARY\DJ deserving of stall in Hall\Tarkanian rejection called OK
Goolrick isn't up to the task of casting New York as the Unreal City inhabited by temporary patricians cast in the gaudiest spree of modern times; his tough guy kitsch and awful prose belong to another era of closeted sensibilities, the kind of manner redolent in memoirs written by Reagan administration officials.
The Fall of Princes
First I attended a golf tournament for Gary Speed's Foundation at the Ramside Hall course near Durham City with my mate Glenn McCrory where I got into earnest conversation with the likes of Steve Howey, Freddy Shepherd, Alan Shoulder, Mick Martin, Wes Saunders, Stewart Hall, Billy Hardy and John MacPhail, the old Sunderland central defender who wore the gaudiest pair of tartan trousers I've ever seen without the protection of sun glasses.
Rubbing shoulders with fab friends
Land of the world's biggest shopping malls, tallest hotels, gaudiest shop windows, but also of inaccessible villages, deserted farmlands and cities ringed by shanty towns.
More on the Turkish psyche
America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history, he wrote, "and there was going to be plenty to tell about it.
The great party-crasher: Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the cultures of World War I remembrance
OLIGARCHS' gently bobbing yachts share the few miles of sea to Albania with the gaudiest of cruise ships and the finest restaurants have paper tablecloths.
Corphew! It's a scorcher; IT'S sunshine and scenery are no secret, but TOM ROWLEY has discovered there's so much more to Corfu - an island with riches that cannot be eroded by the dire economic climate
An American named Richard Pennoyer bought St Donat's in 1922 but its gaudiest days were yet to come.
When Hollywood came to town
OLIGARCHS' gently bopping yachts share the few miles of sea to Albania with the gaudiest of cruise ships and the finest restaurants have paper tablecloths.
An island at ease with itself; Just a few miles from the concrete hotels and wild parties, TOM ROWLEY discovers a more sedate side to Corfu

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