Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Stalin, always lavish with Russia's millions in buying tractors, remains a tightwad as to railways, choosing to have hapless Soviet railwaymen shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...
Chamberlain of Birmingham punctured the ballooning rumor that David Lloyd George was about to be given a Cabinet portfolio by National Government in an effort to get the votes he is drumming up by his loud "New Deal" proposals to restore British prosperity by lavish public works (TIME, Jan. 28). Coldly, simply, Chancellor Chamberlain said: "The policy of providing public works always fails, and our past experience in this respect has been no different from that of other countries which have tried...
...chief merit of Alexander Korda's historical researches (Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Don Juan) is the quality of adult humor, with which he endows them. Like his previous works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie...
Rich with the smells of all the Russias, poorly but warmly clad Soviet legislators jounced into Moscow last week beaming and expectant. To them Joseph Stalin is a real Santa Claus. Once every few years-they get free rides to Moscow and lavish entertainment at the State's expense. Two thousand strong, they sit in the onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents...
Mascagni's enthusiasm extended even to his murderous crack-brained hero who appeared on La Scala stage as a dreamer who fiddled while Rome was burning because he was sincerely absorbed in his music. La Scala had staged a lavish production but, even to many who cheered, it all seemed rather foolish. First act was in a murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging...