Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master of Jehol, whose warm opium-growing oases, have made him vastly rich, is sturdy, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week he braved a Japanese offensive, buried a wife and entertained with bland, lavish hospitality two highly exalted Chinese...
Meanwhile, 1.500 miles away on the northern tip of the even huger Island of Sumatra, Her Majesty's biggest battleship, the 16-knot De Zeven Provincien, mounting two 11-in. and four 5.9-in. Krupp guns, cast anchor in Oleleh Harbor. Smacking their lips at the prospect of lavish Dutch planter hospitality. Commander Eikenboom and his ranking officers went amiably ashore...
...Nell Gwyn's world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to "apoplexy," Biographer Bax cites a modern medical opinion that the real cause of her death was syphilis, hints that this too was a gift from her lavish royal lover. Bax calls Nell "sweet, merry, winsome. . . . We cannot say, though, that she was one of the world's most beautiful women." But he thinks "she would have enchanted any cocktail party or diplomatic reception of our time...
Paramount--"Sign of the Cross." Cecil B. de Mille's extravaganza of the lavish days of the Imperial Purple, with a sterling cast headed by Charles Laughton...
...going off on Vincent Astor's Nourmahal for a fishing trip in Florida waters. The shank of February was to be spent either at Hyde Park or in the Capital itself at the Townsend home on Massachusetts Avenue. After that-the Inaugural, plans for which had grown so lavish last week that it was going to take General Pershing to lead the parade...