Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were never without competition. There were the Goodrich, and Harvey's, and Pickett's. But not for 40 years, in 1877, were the McGuffey's seriously threatened. Then appeared the Appleton readers, prepared by the school superintendents of St. Louis and Cleveland with a Yale professor. It was a lavish series, handsomely illustrated. The McGuffey's survived this onslaught only by those sterling moral values which had made them a byword in the land, a staple commodity at every general store. That they have now vanished utterly from schoolrooms will be difficult to prove, especially since they owe their whole...
...Herr Graefe guilty of malicious slander, sentenced him to three months in jail. Indignant friends of Dr. Stresemann explained once again that his wife has a rich bachelor brother who delights to open his purse and let Frau Stresemann entertain herself, her friends, Dr. Stresemann's friends, at lavish semi-official functions quite beyond the Stresemann means...
...Advocate parrot will be enclosed in a gilded cage of the finest quality obtainable, from which vantage point he will lavish profanity and witty sayings upon the Board, and it is expected that he may even dictate printable prose and poetry worthy of being given space in the columns of the magazine...
...setting chosen should have offered Jorgulesco more inspiration than he seems to have derived, for the primary colors of a North African colonial scene are made to his lavish hand. But it is to be remarked that he seems to lack a flair for portraying the exoticism of the unconventional scene with that same facility which he shows in destroying the conventionality of the conventional...
...Year's Day. Having celebrated the end of 1926 according to their tastes, they arose at 9:45 a.m., snatched a cup of coffee and hurried to the White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many a felicitation. Most of Washington's bigwigs and their ladies were there-Cabinet members, ambassadors, ministers...