Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night at a lavish State dinner, Führer Hitler and Regent Prince Paul exchanged toasts that would make Balkan, perhaps European, history...
...difficulty selling $17,500,000 worth of concessions. But wooing exhibitors was harder work. Nonetheless, he managed to land $30,000,000 worth of entries. When the automobile tycoons hung back, he played General Motors, Ford and Chrysler off against each other so skilfully that he wound up with lavish exhibits from all three. While Heinz held out for a pickle-shaped building, Grover Whalen signed up so many other food exhibitors that Heinz was finally glad to accept half of another, more prosaic building...
...most part individually homely. In mass, however, they are peculiarly stimulating. The bright colors and bizarre shapes are gay, the blank walls excellent frames for frequent murals, some good and many not so good. The planning is superb, the lighting exceedingly effective. The overwhelming impression is of incredible, lavish bigness...
Speaking of what many people term his radical changes in the theatre, Welles said, "We are not trying to change the theatre, but are merely trying to rid ourselves of those customs which are nothing more nor less than bad habits. Such frills as unnecessary scenery and lavish costumes are those evils we are combatting. In this way, we hope that we may bring the theatre back to its purest form...
Favorite sports of handsome Edgar Queeny are shooting moose and ducks, sniping for new divisions and-dearest of all-knocking off public relations stunts. He calls public relations "business manners and morals," espouses complete candor. Last week's survey of stockholders-lavish to the point of including pictures of "typical" Monsanto stockholders in the "typical" city of Cincinnati-was frankly designed to prove that Monsanto is not owned or run by any of "America's 60 Families...