Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Business reporter in referring to gold-plated steaks from T. O. Pride [Nov. 4] has smeared the gold on with a lavish hand. Sirloin from this steer would be worth nearer $125 than $1,250 a pound. Perhaps in drooling over the thought of sirloin (with mushrooms) from this champion, his enthusiasm prompted him to place the decimal point one place too far to the right. Right...
Totem & Taboo. For his latest and most lavish book Covarrubias (and his Los Angeles-born wife Rose) worked on & off for six years. He first went to the isthmus in the early '20s, when it was still possible to find the Tehuantepec River filled twice daily with naked bathers splashing unselfconsciously in the brown waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient...
Promising a full strength appearance of the Whiffenpoofs to highlight its lavish Yale weekend program, the Interhouse Social Affairs Committee last night released its schedule for the November 23 weekend...
...Brunswick . . . is one of the most comfortable and handsomely furnished hotels in the world . . . (done in) lavish and magnificent style...
Opera, Italian style, is flourishing in all its prewar luxuriance-a little haphazard by German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City Music Hall look like a miniature. Italy shows no signs of a cultural letdown. It is excited, exuberant and ready...