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Word: lavishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel a little self-conscious about lavish suppers when the U.S. is doling out aid to the ambassador's hungry nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Joan of Arc. A lavish historical spectacle, with Ingrid Bergman giving it some breath of life (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Joan of Arc. A lavish historical spectacle, with Ingrid Bergman giving it some breath of life (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Joan of Arc. A lavish historical spectacle, with Ingrid Bergman giving it some breath of life (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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