Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what she calls "living it up." She had bought a complete new wardrobe, spent a frenzied two days in San Francisco singing for the fun of it at nightclubs she visited. Every night she was out on the town, mostly with different escorts. In the daytime she burned up excess energy by taking golf lessons. Buoyed by the raves of the movie trade press for Annie and her performance, she treated nightclubbers (including her ex-husband) at Hollywood's Mocambo to an impromptu performance of the whole score. Then she impulsively grabbed customers as dancing partners and swung half...
Except to actors in search of a role, most plays in book form are dull reading. Without props or actors to create illusion and vitality, they make an intolerable demand on the average reader's imagination. A Shakespeare becomes an exception through an excess of sheer creative power, a Shaw through saucy verbal glitter, but so far there has been just one Shakespeare and one Shaw. With The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot moved very close to the select circle of playwrights who can be read with pleasure. With The Lady's Not for Burning, Britain...
...suit, which did not mention Howell, stated the outlets of various reservoirs had beer "manipulated" so as to give the appearance of being dangerously law. The report alleged that the purpose of the campaign was to sell a quantity of water meters "in excess of $300,000,000." The complaint further stated that so little is known of artificial water making experiments that it was impossible to predict accurately the results of the project...
...year, the number of television sponsors had soared from 680 to 2,316, boasted Du Mont's TV network General Manager Chris Whitting. Said he: "Our network tripled its billing in 1949, grossing in excess of $3,000,000." Beefy Harry Bannister, general manager of Detroit's WWJ-TV, saw nothing ahead but a golden future: "I don't think it matters what kind of program the sponsor has. They all sell the product...
...alumni drives to pay for new dorms are not successful, any possible excess from rent revenues could go to paying some of the building costs...