Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from Hollywood; and 150 men and women menials to tend the comfort of their lord...
...performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley as a tool...
...Rolls-Royce with a bed in it so that he can catch naps on his way to the Saratoga races, much pre- fers to tool his coach & four. This is the vehicle in which, wearing a beige derby to match his wife's beige dresses and equipped with lavish hampers of refreshments, Mr. Clark takes himself magnificently to the polo matches and race meets which decorate Long Island summers. In winter the Clarks go to Melton Mowbray for the hunting. A friendship between Mr. Clark and the Prince of Wales-who visited them in Westbury in 1924-sprang...
...Melody" -- Casino, 7th and 50th Street--More music than comedy, but a very lavish operetta with Evelyn Herbert, Everett Marshall and Jeanno Aubert...
...Boehnicke, a sales girl, scratches her ribs in the various ecstasies of love until the wealthy Americo-German financier is willing to marry her. Walldorf, who is described as a business man, rushes about with his wife alternately trying to pay for clothes that are being repaired, and giving lavish dinners. Monika's idea of paradise is a drunken brawl with much sitting on mirrors and with her mother and father downstairs, weeping...