Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moments he has dictated "a sort of a kind of an"* autobiography, lavish with anecdotes of "people," ranging from his fishmonger foster-father to William Jennings Bryan, his son's godfather. Written objectively, the effect is as though he were telling of somebody else. Written carelessly in helter-skelter, unkempt style, People might well have been tossed into a dictaphone between tea and dinner...
Bennett devoted his later years almost exclusively to the Paris edition of the Herald, which had long been the pet of his most lavish whims. He died in 1918 at Beaulieu, France, aged 77.* The Herald was sold to the late Frank Andrew Munsey and was later merged with the New York Tribune...
...last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly how this "lavish production will be Belasco's swan song." So a typical Belasco audience, in limousines, came to see Lenore Ulric in a play which contained devils, scenes of passionate affection and a huge machine for producing evil on the earth...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 61, famed 5 & 10 cent store tycoon, lavish Anti-Salooner, of Highland Park, Mich.; to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine, 34, of Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about...
...Hoff who had been characterized as the bootleg tsar, Borgian in intrigue, monstrously and illicitly wealthy. But he declared himself bankrupt. And his lawyer suggested lavish Hoff philanthropy. Students of the situation wondered whether the term "philanthropy" included the hundreds of Christmas turkeys that policemen had received from "Boo Boo" in recent years...