Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward for faithful service varied from nothing (except the privilege of sitting out of sight during the sermon) to Boston's lavish 50?-per-Sunday. Average pay was about 15?. Concluding his article, Author Shafer whimsically proposed an organization of former pumpers. To his amazement, he was flooded by enthusiastic letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator...
...SYMPHONIES - Andre Gide - Knopf ($2.50). "Quietly! Quietly!" says Andre Gide. ''Is life disorderly, noisy? Art is not." In these Two Symphonies of his (published separately in Paris some ten years ago) you may hear some of the faint harmonics. No lavish diapasoner of thundering chords, Andre Gide picks out his effects with a spare but accurate choice. habelle is the story of love at first sight that withered not from Time but from a second glance. Young Student Lacase, searching materials for his thesis, visits the queer country household of La Quartfourche. They are all old people there...
...modern review, "The Third Little Show" is an obvious success. The matter of lavish sets and multitudinous choruses is left to the movies. The excellent humor of the individual scenes carries the show and with a small amount of necessary revision and rearrangement the result should approach the first rank...
...give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order to increase the White House appropriation to allow of lavish entertainments...
...Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions...