Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headlining the show are Veloz & Yolanda, whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert-and persistent -with a guitar; Jerry Shelton is lively-and lavish-with an accordion; Al & Lee Reiser are energetic-and relatively brief -with two pianos. The Golden Gate Quartet harmonizes-and with not too much variety. Susan Miller sings-a little too close to the microphone. Bill Gary dances-a little too much like Paul Draper...
...while buyers and money were in abundance, goods were not. Best index of the seller's market: retailers (for whom wholesalers used to give lavish parties) this time frantically reached for the dinner checks. But at week's end many a buyer went home with nothing but entertainment to put on his expense account. Cracked one furniture manufacturer: "We're paying a bonus to the salesman who sells the least...
...inventories. When the President, touring the Washington shopping district last fall, exhorted shopkeepers to hide their "luxuries" in the attic, he was simply responding to the statistical fact that in October and November retail sales were practically at an alltime peak. And, at Christmas, buying was bigger and more lavish than at any time in the country's history...
...occasion Governor Jefferies will enrich the school's lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...
...Chinese colonel, an interpreter who spoke Chinese, English, Urdu, Hindu, Bengali, Nepali and Assamese! and four Chinese medical officers. They had nearly 50 patients. They seemed delighted to see us and for vague promises of assistance in the future they were embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down...