Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicament of the condemned-of men waiting for the electric chair. The first act is an agonizing crescendo leading to an execution. The murderer is given a lavish meal which he cannot eat, cigarets which he is unable to finish. His temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working...
...home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending takes the form of lavish entertainment, maintenance of a hospital in Leipzig, and now, donations to his company...
Most potent of the Brothers Pratt is Herbert Lee, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, lavish benefactor of the Y. M. C. A. Largest and most impressive is his Glen Cove home, "The Braes," a many-chimneyed pile of red stone with white marble trimmings, baronial courtyard, fountains, gardens. In such a magnificent setting the best of French champagne would not be out of place. To the task of procuring some, Herbert Lee Pratt last spring applied himself, with the following results...
...finger nails and bits of cotton, was immediately acquired by the Queen of Norway. The queer Perdriat legend promptly began, a legend fostered by that somewhat anonymous and powerful group, "her friends," who apparently had been already convinced of her genius and were waiting only for the opportunity to lavish praises on its fruits...
...There is also Tina Meller, sister of the famed Raquel, a smoldering mite whose dances are Castillian and carnal, and the Griffiths Brothers whose appearance disguised as a horse proves again that nothing is much funnier than the combination of animal aspect and human behavior. Neglecting ambitious scenery and lavish chorus effects, Mr. Cochran has revitalized the decrepit revue formula with large doses of the unfailing remedy of personality. Wake Up and Dream succeeds because it contains individuals who do individual things...