Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wood Jr.: "A player known to have no other source of income, can . . . travel the tournament trail in relative luxury throughout South America, Europe, Egypt, India and most of the U.S. ... He is often able to set aside some rainy-day savings gleaned from an expense account well in excess of the legally prescribed $15 daily...
Delegate Frank Canada, Local 1199 (Chicago): I would like to ask Mr. Mitchell what the Republican Party or himself did. They put in a movement for the excess-profits tax for the manufacturers, which in our shops saved them $200,000 in this last year. Did they do anything for the working people? Have they ever done anything for a union member...
...sure, in the days when, according to a pious correspondent, "this hath been a place certainly more free from temptations to lewdness than ordinarily England has been . . .',, locking the gates was sure-fire, but the College has since spread out a little. Rank riot and excess in the form of Cambridge streets awaits every sophomore, junior, and senior who leaves his room. The subway stands ready to rocket inmates of the Houses into "the company and society of such men who lead an ungirt and dissolute life," and all the chained gates in Cambridge cannot revive President Chauncey...
...much at a party, he was promptly described in family circles as being "dead drunk." When Vyvyan Holland went to Cambridge-Oxford was out of the question since his father had gone there-his guardian was quick to warn those in charge that he was "idle, drank to excess and frequented bad company." In the years since, Vyvyan Holland has found, befriended and been befriended by many old friends of his father. He has married and has a son of his own. He has lived well enough from his own earnings as a part-time author and translator, and from...
...total of payments stated to have been made by various [building] promoters to him, and Powell's receipts for which no other explanation can be found, goes comfortably into six figures for the years 1946 to 1950." Pressed for a more specific figure, McKenna would only say "in excess of $100,000." But a top housing official thought even that estimate "was only a small part of the total...