Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Father Divine held lavish "tables" (free feasts) at Sayville, a Long Island summer resort. He fed all comers as much as they wanted and as often. He had three big houses to shelter his following, some of them whites. No one knew precisely where the $30,000 yearly overhead came from except Father Divine, who explained that it came from Divine Providence. But many a Manhattan cook had sent him small contributions, and from Negroes for whom he found work a tithe was forthcoming. He was run out of Sayville last year, fined $500 and sentenced to a year...
...keep Northern Ireland loyal to King George's Crown and cool toward ranting President Eamon de Valera in the (Southern) Irish Free State, prudent Mother Britain is lavish with gifts. Last winter Belfast went wild when Edward of Wales arrived to open a $5,000,000 present, the massive Northern Ireland Parliament Building, located inconveniently far out of town on Stormont Hill (TIME, Nov. 28). Lest Republicans in the Free State become too irate, His Royal Highness' speech was not broadcast...
...Africa to Europe again the story goes, then heads west to Louisiana and loses itself among the deserts and mountains of Mexico. Spanning the Napoleonic period, it introduces many a historical personage in human guise: Napoleon himself, Talleyrand, Slaver Mongo Tom, the Rothschilds (né Meyer). Though this lavish scene forms only the background for the hero, he is the least "real" (i. e., objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested in his quest than in his adventures...
...assumption carries many elements of the gratuitous. The colleges have remained under the influence of a very genial and very American fable--the fable whose moral is that the A. B. degree is the prerogative of every home born child of whatever position or attainments. University catalogues have been lavish in their descriptions of unmoneyed young men who have earned many thousands of dollars in the course of their college careers, have become class officers and have merited Phi Beta Kappa. Almost every college, of course, can boast of a few such men in its history, and can embalm them...
...sinister. The machinery which he built for Bryan he deliberately used later to carry himself toward the White House where he felt, doubtless sincerely, his "new journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor, Governor and President, his motives were never sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith...