Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lavish Display. With cheerful informality she recalled how her office was in the habit of calling Andy May's office as often as three times a day. Once she had heard him interrupt a conversation to ask: "What about the $3,000?" Another time a company officer took an envelope containing $1,000 to Congressman May's office...
Then New York's enterprising, tabloid Daily News heaped confusion on Andy May's towering embarrassment-with a lavish display of photographs from the wedding of Murray Garsson's daughter. Though May had denied any close connections with the Garssons, he turned up big as life in a picture, beaming broadly in the embrace of the bride's sister...
...Russia used veto power to keep the Big Four from arriving at unity, she played 'another tune in her direct dealings with Germans. The Russians not only permitted Germany's right-of-center Christian Democratic Union Party to hold a meeting in Berlin; Marshal Sokolovsky held a lavish reception for the delegates. (They came from all over Germany except the French zone, where permission to attend was refused.) Russian Information Control Chief, Colonel Serge Tulpa-nov (who, like most Russian occupation officers, but unlike most Americans, speaks German fluently), said: "We Russians desire a unified and strong Germany...
...tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...
After skimping on Love in the plot, Anna's manufacturers tried to even the score by throwing in an extra helping of Glamor on sets and costumes. One of the first postwar productions to splurge on lavish, prewar-style props, the picture was shot over five acres of lot covered with $300,000 worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely...