Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the winsome Mr. Marston, the cast of this play includes the Margaret Lawrence who has long been absent from Broadway, and the less famed but more beautiful and perhaps equally capable Isobel Elsom. Its production is lavish in all details. Yet, probably because characters in it are permitted to say, when on the point of departure, "Is it ... for good?" or to remark, brightly, about sugar, "A lump a "day keeps the levers away," The Behavior of Mrs. Crane is not really so very entertaining...
Sardinia, as every geographer knows, is an island some nine times larger in area than Rhode Island but only a trifle more populous. It lies in midMediterranean, almost touching the smaller but more famed French island of Corsica. By a lavish freak of Nature, Sardinia has been endowed with coastal lowlands recalling Holland, dense forests, a few crags of grandeur, rich vine and olive lands, and extensive malarial swamps. To these last the people have adapted their constitutions through long generations, and are now virtually immune to malaria...
Because Their Majesties are the first reigning sovereigns to visit Berlin officially since the War, their reception last week included the lavish decking of Unter den Linden with much tall, upstanding greenery and many an Afghan & German flag. The famed Prince Albrecht Palace had been entirely renovated for their reception...
Engaged. Ernest W. Marland, 53, lavish poloplaying oilman of Ponca City, Okla., owner of many prairie acres upon which he is now building a million-dollar manor house, commissioner of a statue, "The Pioneer Woman" (TIME, Jan. 2); to his adopted daughter, Miss Lydie Miller Koberts...
Accordingly, all who would read China's future turned, last week, to gaze upon certain promising war-seeds and their lavish sowers...