Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 1, the note on Funeral Costs is of interest. TIME's charges are essentially sound. I doubt, though, if the funeral director is altogether to blame. He is the offshoot of lavish demands, created by sentiment...
...conservative Banker & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. Setting: the Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa Armour and Beatrice Kirk; Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus Franklin Swift (meats...
...about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
...collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens with lavish brushes. The 32 reproductions in this book give a good cross-section of the more than 4,000 subjects. Says Colyumist Grouse: "Now no one who owns the prints would think of hiding them. Indeed, today hanging isn't considered too good for them...
Princess Charming. Even with a book rewritten by the late Hoofer Jack Donahue, music by Albert Sirmay and Arthur Schwartz, scenery by Joseph Urban, Princess Charming might have been a presentation more on the lavish side than on the entertaining. The fact that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought...