Word: bounteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prima Donna Gladys Baxter has a bounteous voice and sings a czardas with considerable fire. In the last act the Shuberts, unable to suppress their vaudeville, interpolate a comedian named Solly Ward who tells time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet...
...Sklarek brothers came from the East after the War, have been prominent figures in Berlin's night life. Where bands blared loudest, where dimples were deepest, there were the Sklareks. Head waiters understood that the bounteous brothers held valuable contracts from the Berlin municipal government for clothing, uniforms, hospital linen. Unfortunately Sklarek commissions could not keep up with the cost of Sklarek champagne. The Sklareks "arranged" for cash advances to the sum of $2,000,000 from Berlin's municipally operated City Bank...
Uruguay. The smallest South American country is among the most bounteous, salubrious and progressive. Perhaps no other land is so well watered and ideally suited to sheep and cattle raising. Prosperity is focused upon a relatively few rich ranchers, and they in turn concentrate their whole wealth in Montevideo...
...adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain, and was amazed to have a breakfast set out before him consisting solely of a bounteous dish of ice cream. Feng had inquired what the American liked most to eat and then told his "number-one-boy" to provide it for his distinguished friend next morning. Said "number-one-boy" was reported to have spent most of the night with a staff of house servants...
...complimented Director Vladimir Rosing on how smoothly everything went. The box in which the President sat was that of Mrs. Joseph Leiter, outstanding capital hostess.* After the opera, President and Mrs. Coolidge went home, while Mrs. Leiter welcomed the American Opera Company at a party vivified by her bounteous stores of champagne...