Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford's 14. In 1926 and 1929 St. Mary's had undefeated teams. Coach Madigan was a Notre Dame guard under Knute Rockne and Rockne's predecessor, George Harper. He curses, roars at jokes with his players in a booming voice. Before games he delivers lavish orations. Coach Madigan's quotations from Robert Louis Stevenson's Leaves of Gold (gold is St. Mary's color) so inspired his players against Fordham in 1930 that the team, 12 points behind, made three touchdowns in the second half, won 20-12. Last week, Coach Madigan failed...
...order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever given in Chicago, one, we are told (not to be comparative but to give a stamp of excellence) that equalled any Beaux Arts Ball ever given in New York in the heyday of lavish prosperity...
...none of Rockefeller Center's murals startles the beholder quite so much as a large canvas hung this autumn in the spectacular foyer of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman's Chinese that ordinary theatre-goers might pass this picture by. Last week it was called sharply to public attention by 20-year-old Sherman Miller, editor & publisher of California Youth. On a white charger Napoleon rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse...
...Titusville period, ante Rockefeller and ante Standard. It was difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...
...position of "knowing too much." More true to genre than Colyumist Robert's embroilment with the 'racketeer, his devotion to his aged mother, or his engagement to a female critic (Mary Brian), is his altercation with a cabaret crooner (Dick Powell). While forcing his way into the lavish opening night of the crooner's cabaret, Colyumist Roberts gives the racketeer a chance to shoot at him, gives himself a chance to atone to the singer...