Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson nine, particularly the pitchers, proved to be lavish entertainers Saturday by presenting their Cornell visitors with an 11 to 1 victory and displaying for their benefit, all sorts and varieties of baseball, mostly poor. Weak pitching, slovenly fielding, and ineffectual batting combined in the most dismal showing of the season...
...boxes; each holding from eight to ten people, were arranged all around the edge of the hall except for a few which were up in the west balcony. A lavish display of flowers and curtains decorated each box. The hall was gayly lighted by 150 Japanese lanterns strung along each side and across the center. Evergreens and flowers decorated the walls about the portraits-and busts of the famous Harvard graduates...
Owen Wister, author of The Virginian and other novels: "I refused an appointment to handle funds to be collected in Philadelphia for German children. I gave as my reason the lavish expenditures by German profiteers 'conspicuous for their eating, their drinking and their jewels' which I had observed in expensive Swiss hotels. 'May I suggest,' said I, 'that before asking American help, you invite these German profiteers to look after their own flesh and blood. ... Perhaps you are not aware what is being taught about the War to German children in Prussianized schools, but you can hardly have forgotten...
...Christmas of 1923 will go down in history as lavish in extra dividends to stockholders. An almost interminable list of corporations, great and small, has followed the lead made some weeks past by the U. S. Steel Corporation in making presents to stockholders. Such an occurrence has not been witnessed since the spectacular but lamented year...
Ingersoll-Rand was perhaps the most lavish, declaring an extra cash dividend of $20 and an extra stock dividend of 10%. Vacuum Oil's "extra" amounted to 50 cents a share. United States Gypsum disbursed an extra stock dividend of 20% on its common stock, while Eastman Kodak's extra payment was $1.25 per share. Bucyrus paid 7% extra on its preferred stock...