Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship subsidy is being sidestepped by the Simmons and Norris farm bloc bills brings back that historic scene in "Penrod" when all the boys ran away from beautiful Marjorie Jones, to lavish their attentions on the disingenuous little out-of-town girl, Fanchon Gelbraith. President Harding's attempt to usher his subsidy through Congress has gone for naught. Teacher's pet fares poorly when she is left all alone among the rough boys from the great unruly West...
...comes Cecile Corel. Comedienne in double sense, who declared last year that she would never come to America unless she could have champagne to bathe in, and followed with the enigmatic remark, on reaching New York, that America's air was like champagne. New York has found time to lavish praise upon her: the Boston repertoire, at the Opera House next week, is given elsewhere on this page...
Again and again Mr. Monteux justifies the sometimes lavish praise which his admirers heap upon him; often he even exceeds their fondest hopes. This he did yesterday afternoon in the fifth Friday afternoon concert of the Symphony Orchestra...
...play itself falls a trifle short of meriting its lavish praises, the same cannot be said for Charles Gilpin. There is only one character, to all intents and purposes, in the play; yet the stage never seems empty and the monologue avoids any suggestion of monotony. There is more time on the stage when nothing is being said than when there is speech, and it is in his silences that Gilpin does some of his best work--though his speech, too, is excellent, and his rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance...
...Mecca," the newest extravaganza of Morris Gest, which opened at the Century Theatre in New York on Monday evening, is said to surpass by far his previous lavish spectacles, such as "Chu Chin Chow" and "Aphrodite...