Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agitation, the boycott, the philippies and counter philippies, all smack much more of Washington Square than Williamstown. With its lavish Colonial fraternity houses, its large quota of good cars, and its time-honored indifference, which runs even that of Harvard a close race, Williams can hardly be called a hotbed of radicalism. If the crusade against the Hearst newsreel was successful it is because an increasingly large number of American undergraduates are becoming disgusted with the philosophy of San Simeon. At Williams, as at other universities, they make their wishes felt in the face of a good-naturedly indifferent majority...
...head has always been a Scotsman. Its managerial traditions are tight-lipped accounting and long-headed efficiency. Its annual report usually concludes with a tribute to the "zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After the sons and grandsons of the late great Cyrus Hall McCormick began to lavish their energies on personal affairs, Alexander Legge took command. When Mr. Legge died in 1933, right at hand was a faithful first vice president whose sober Scotch virtues had raised him from the stock room-Addis Emmet McKinstry-Last week Mr. McKinstry retired because of ill health, and Harvester...
...unhappiness into her life. First was one Frederick A. Gower who took a balloon flight over the English Channel and never returned. Second was Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...
...House is out-standing. In addition to two luxuriously appointed Common rooms and two music rooms, it has an attractive ladies' lounge that is unique in the House Plan, and a gentlemen's retiring room that is the largest in the country north of Radio City. The House's lavish schedule of entertainment so far this year has included seven dances and a Christmas banquet...
...President of China is a personage venerable and quaint. President Lin Sen has the archaic beard and lineaments of a Chinese scholar of bygone days. He is philosophical, reflective, expressionless. He is Old China. On his round-the-world trip in 1929, Mr. Lin with gentle insistence curbed the lavish hospitality of his expatriate Chinese hosts. "In this hard year of 1929," said he, "let us not spend our time and our money upon fine banquets and rich food while so many starve...