Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy is the Mohammedan who dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His soul ascends with a special sanctity to paradise. On such a soul the sloe-eyed houris lavish sweetest sweetmeats, coyest caresses, deepest delights...
Docile and expectant, the crowd waited nearly all day in the hot sun last week, but President Roy had evidently plugged his ears to the voice of Tradition. It is not an old Wall Street custom to be lavish even with coppers; the U. S. Presidents' only observance of a custom in any way analogous is to roll hard-boiled Easter Eggs on the White House lawn for children to take home...
...paid the record high fine for smuggling. The Customs' Collector at New York received a check for $213,286, signed by Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, president of Harriet Hubbard Ayer Inc. (cosmetics). Mrs. Dodge was in bed with nervous breakdown. Inspectors who pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose...
...this was admittance to college in general and Harvard in particular may depend, not upon the intelligence or preparation of the applicant but in his financial power to lavish expenditure upon the College Widow and its like. That such methods may suttice admission is unfair to candidates without Wall Street backing. It is also unfair to Harvard, in whose Freshman Class the present system places a group of men whose work, or rather lack of it, lowers standards, bother deans, and in general forms an unhappy fringe insecurely perched upon the local scene by the perpetual support of hired outside...
Last week Hollywood donned emeralds and ermine and flocked to the world première of All Quiet. Afterward Hollywood went to Junior Laemmle's dancing party at The Embassy, formidably exclusive club of high cinema society. Lavish was its praise of Junior's picture. But privately it whispered professional misgivings. It whispered that the picture was too long; that it was too gloomy for the general taste; that the novelty of war pictures was gone. The true trouble was that All Quiet had been injudiciously heralded as the great epic of the War. Courageous and vivid...