Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more, mediocrity everywhere was too strong. I was the giant with the feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them; they are youth with jeweled eyes. Yet you begrudge them your recognition; yes, you begrudge them fame. Because you are nobody...
Something new, but still a fizzle is "The Blue-bird." Maeterlinck's famous story of how a little girl seeks happiness everywhere, only to find it at home, promised splendid entertainment. But Hollywood, as it too often does, relied exclusively on lavish sets and a stupendous budget. Far from winning the children's fancy, or charming adults with gentle humor, its extravagance only cloys, and bores--with the sole exception of the storm and forest fire scene...
Prince Wadiyar wore the primrose path bare. In his 51 years he made 19 trips to Europe, encumbered always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants...
...costuming is deserving of mention. The lavish gowns of the "feminine" leads remind one of Schiaparelli's best. It is surprising how mere draping can lend a seductive enchantment to a mere male form. The show, as a whole, is an embryonic Rodgers and Hart production...
...Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry II for reception into the Church and marriage with a Catholic, Ann McDonnell. But on none of his big-name pupils did Monsignor Sheen lavish more time & trouble than he did on a convert who brought him no temporal glory: his Negro cook...