Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lavish with Roosevelts was commencement time in the East. Archibald, son of the late great Theodore, was elected president of Phillips Andover Academy Alumni Association. His son Archibald Jr. won a lower school reading prize at Groton; his nephew Kermit Jr. the second Heard Poetry Prize. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (see p. 13), an old "Grottie," went up to Groton where his sons John A. and Franklin D. Jr. are enrolled...
...Manhattan. Practically from the start the business prospered on the personal vanity of socialites, nouveaux riches, politicians, tycoons and stage folk. For a time "romeiked" was a common word meaning "compiled in scrapbooks." If Brother Henry was not rich when he died in 1903, it was due to his lavish scale of living...
Lightweight fighters were lavish last week with gore and sincerity. Goriest, most sincere was an encore in the Chicago Stadium of the unforgettable meeting two months ago in New York between Christopher ("Bat") Battalino and Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle, whose right hand is a trip-hammer (TIME, April...
...human beings as on growing plants; all forms of life are bestowed with superabundant energy, and each of them utilizes a considerable percentage of it in the processes of growth. However, in the case of the modern college man, very little attention is given to the guidance of this lavish expenditure of springtime energy, and much of it is thereby wasted...
...grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong...