Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impression that Henry Adams and John La Farge spent a hectic interval on Tahiti dodging Gloomy Paul Gauguin when as a matter of fact, to Paul they were Western trash and the last creatures in the world with whom he would traffic . . . but perhaps it is the lavish economy of your style that creates these false impressions...
...study French, British and Dutch Colonial administration, and to foster trade, the Navy Department dropped the subject. But to millions of brown & yellow natives, to thousands of white residents in the East Indies, the visit of the Big White Governor & children was news, fun, sufficient excuse for brief but lavish festivities. The longest while that the Davises remained in any one place up to last weekend, was 92 hours...
...division of Yale college into residential quadrangles. Numbering eleven, these will be known not as "houses" (as at Harvard; but as "colleges." They will be given names celebrated in Yale history. Five of them?Berkeley, Saybrook, Branford, Pierson, Davenport?have already been projected, three in existent buildings, two in lavish Gothic piles now abuilding. Each college will have a "master" and about ten assistant or associate "fellows." Last year the first master was appointed: popular young Professor French...
...were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irénée du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish...
Huntington Badger Henry (she was a Swift) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Geraldine Swift and Hortense Henry. San Francisco. Mrs. Adolph...