Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remote from both eastern and western U.S. seacoasts, sheltered by the loftiest of U.S. mountain ranges, Colorado Springs is one of the least bombable of U.S. cities. Its Fine Art Center, providently built six years ago with lavish backing by Art Patroness Alice Bemis Taylor, contains ample storage space for 2,000 paintings, is honeycombed with strong-walled concrete galleries, corridors and sub-basements. Last week, masterpieces from San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. were making for that bombproof shelter at the rate...
Banjo Eyes itself is more of a Cantor show window than a show. Loud, lavish, densely populated, it is full of corn-fed gags and Broadway energy. Though based on a funny farce, Three Men on a Horse, it remains faithful only to the plot, brazenly two-times the humor. The music is commonplace, the dancing lively and plentiful but uninspired. Pretty bad but never boring, Banjo Eyes serves well enough to bring home the prodigal...
...Variety bestowed kudos on NBC for its short-wave division, on Mutual for its public-relations department, on CBS for its lavish program series, Forecast...
Last week many Chinese girls heard the traditional pidgin-English farewell: Long Time No Come No See. The lavish, profiteering drama of the International Settlement was ending. But outside the Settlement's barbed-wire fences there was a Shanghai that would remain much the same - the teeming, filthy, odorous native city of 3,500,000 Chinese, the Shanghai described by André Malraux...
Eyes for Nipples. When Byron reached Switzerland, he wrote on the hotel blotter after the question Age?: 100. He was 28. But his thick reddish hair was already greying, though "darkened by the lavish use of macassar...