Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an echo of these lavish reports came back to Lilibet, and her sense of importance was in no way diminished by a kindly, doting old Sovereign whom she called "Grandpapa England." "They're cheering for you, you know," George V explained to her one day as he held her in his arms on the Palace balcony. Lilibet smiled radiantly. Later she was caught testing her royal prerogative by making a playmate bow low in homage...
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...
...capital's social swirl has a rich, full-bodied sudsiness all its own. Last week, with the Republicans in the majority, and with the top hat, the starched shirt and the powdered bosom fashionable again, Washington was the most glittering of world capitals. Its parties were not only lavish, but in many cases prodigiously decorous and restrained. The average Washingtonian invariably hopes that others will think he is discussing some new and ponderous fact of foreign policy; he eternally strives for a concerned and thoughtful expression...
...long the upper stratum of Palm Beach and Newport society was chilly toward the Youngs. In 1936, they gave their only child, Eleanor, one of the most spectacularly lavish coming-out parties in Newport's history. But since 1941, when Eleanor was killed in an airplane crash, the Youngs have become much less active -and entirely acceptable. If nothing else, their closeness to the Windsors would generally insure them top seeding in social tournaments...
Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...