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Word: lavishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rachel Crothers' new comedy, "When Ladies Meet," is clever, sophisticated, and light, but not convincing. It continues, however, to be one of the season's attractions at the Royale, and many have lavish praise for the play, the vast, and the delightful helter-skelter performance of Spring Byington...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/25/1933 | See Source »

...That's what made the Democratic Party in New York-great big lavish charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: O'Brienisms | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused him of unfriendliness to modern art Sir Joseph, one of the world's great traffickers in antiquities, handsomely turned the other cheek by purchasing the works of modern British and U. S. painters, writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Merit & Persistence | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually glad to become acclimatized. In the boom years of expansion Stephen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Centenary Chronicle | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

George White's Music Hall Varieties eschews the lavish surroundings with which Producer White used to set his Scandals, offers little new material but three bags full of entertainment in the persons of Lili Damita, Harry Richman, Bert Lahr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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