Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest race of its kind ever sailed." In her races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician...
Elsewhere in Islam than at Meknes, no such lavish gestures marked the observance of Mohammed's birthday. Celebrations of the Prophet's anniversary vary locally, like those of Christmas, but they preserve in general an orderly and charitable character appropriate to Mohammed's disclaimer of divinity. In Egypt, Mevloud is a holiday which Moslems devote to house-to-house visiting, attending services at the mosques. In Constantinople, the minarets are lighted, the orphans and poor, as elsewhere in Islam, receive food and candy...
...great period of the Selznick legend began then. He formed other companies for other stars and when Adolph Zukor did the same for Mary Pickford, he wrote Mary Pickford a letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE...
...pungent Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer: "To ask a British Socialist Government to ... put its funds into solvency is like asking a fish to climb a hill. That is not what he is for; he is not made that way. . . . Lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole . . . is good electioneering...
...sufficient hand in affairs to make the Post the leading spokesman for his crony the late Warren Harding and the "Ohio Gang" (see p. 15). Then the McLeans were well able to wear their Post as a bauble. Those were the days of the parties at "Friendship," incredibly lavish affairs attended by "everybody" in Washington. Though she presided as hostess, often wearing the great diamond,* Evelyn McLean seemed by contrast somewhat Victorian, somewhat "sweetly...