Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening's entertainment is that both pieces are very slight and very stagy. But they are also very pleasant. The curtain-raiser, The Violet, is concerned with the trials of a theatrical casting director who becomes weary of the blandishments and caresses which shameless young women, seeking employment, lavish upon him. Changing places with his composer, he is astonished to find that Ilona Stobri (Ruth Gordon) is attracted to him rather than to the one whom she believes is the director. She gets the job. To Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children) went kudos for making...
...returned to their studies, live in two of the most stately new schoolhouses over built in America, houses so beautiful one would think that after having once lived in them the rest of life would be exile. They have cost millions, and millions are to be spent. Why this lavish outlay in college already richly endowed. It is in the hope contriving and intellectual climate ever more friendly to that mysterious ferment which here and there causes to rise in some human breast the yeast of a creative life-purpose...
...Meyer resigned from Government service, loitered expectantly about Washington where he had a large house on Meridian Heights, just off 16th Street. He and his wife, who was the classically beautiful Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, had become an integral part of the capital's society. Their entertainments were lavish compared to the stylelessness of other Washington parties. Just before her husband's retirement Mrs. Meyer had unsuccessfully attempted to restore social peace between Mrs. Dolly Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at an elaborate garden fête (TIME...
...largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
Dynamic, warm, lavish, Byoir is an instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...