Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downtown office to handle the stream of political callers. She widened her circle of friends tremendously after she acquired Magnolia Farm outside of Los Angeles and built a fine colonial home. There she entertained all the bigwigs she thought might help her to realize her political ambitions. Her lavish parties became common talk among Los Angeles newshawks, but they were never fortunate enough to attend, as Queen Helen always shunned publicity. Once they were able to report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas...
...crowd outside this stadium, an Alabamian tried to find a purchaser for his pretty daughter's illegitimate baby, was jailed for his pains. Inside the stadium, encouraged by their lively 200-piece band, their live tiger mascot, Louisiana State's football team-which had already earned its lavish surroundings by a season of eight victories and one tie and its second consecutive Southeastern Conference title-celebrated the occasion, 33-to-0 against Tulane...
...Great Ziegfeld" is the pack in mad magnificence and a great show. M.G.M. determined to memorialize the famous producer in his own lavish style, and the lavishly lushly extravagant sets must have set them back over a million dollars. The movie is a musical review, a biography, and a history of Broadway wound on one reel...
...Soviet citizen, and has functioned in his little Lutheran church in Moscow quietly. Because most Protestant diplomats attend his services, Herr Streck became known unofficially as the "Diplomatic Pastor." He was all set to officiate, and the U. S. Embassy servants were set for the most lavish party since U. S. Ambassador Bullitt was transferred from Moscow to Paris (TIME, Sept. 7), when in the dead of night last week Parson Streck "disappeared...
Listing $700,000 debts and no assets, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Duke of Leinster appeared in London's Bankruptcy Court to tell his creditors how he had embarked in 1928 on a lavish "prospecting" trip to find a U. S. bride who would cure his chronic financial trouble. The impoverished Duke, who once sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc.," said he was twice fooled by "possibilities," finally married Mrs. Rafaelle van Neck of Manhattan, no heiress...