Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London Observer Critic Nigel Gosling, who had thought the black and white reproduction, first released by the National Gallery, suggested "something intellectual and contrived" about the painting, took it all back when he examined it in color. "Over every inch of the canvas the colors are laid on as lavish and delicate as the feathers on a tropical bird...
...three special issues of "the oldest college daily" contained helpful hints on careers in advertising, insurance, and Wall Street. In addition to lavish advertising displays, included were such articles as "Insurance is Explosive as Ever," by a 70-year-old specialist: "Investment Banking: Bastion of Free World," by a stock broker; and "Schweppes in America: A Personal approach," by Commander Edward Whitchead...
Hungarians love chocolate - indeed, it is their favorite sweet. They eat it in pastries, cakes, cookies, and even as the stuffing of a pancake called palacsinta. But last week Budapest was abuzz with rumors of a scandal that turned many a Communist sweet tooth sour. At lavish parties run for high government officials by the boss of Hungary's state-controlled national catering service, the pièce de résistance was a chocolate-covered airline hostess...
...Boston's now defunct R. H. White Co. She then joined John Wanamaker, Inc. and rose to become its Philadelphia store's first woman vice president. Picked as Bonwit Teller of Philadelphia's president in 1958, she revived a dying downtown store with arresting windows and lavish interiors, raised sales 26.6%. Admiring Philadelphia merchants named her 1963's "Man of the Year"-one of the crosses successful women must bear. Says she: "There isn't room for a husband and children in the kind of job I have. Retailing is a full-time...
...lifted the midnight liquor curfew, and on New Year's Eve Muscovites can get oiled until a highly reactionary 5 a.m. Hotels, coffeehouses and restaurants (there are no bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called "Spring" advertised in Vechernaya Moskva that...