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Word: lavishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, where John Mackay bought her a mansion on the Rue de Tilsitt that was ''like the Palace Hotel, only on a smaller scale." She was quick to see that to Europeans it was completely unimportant that she had been snubbed in Manhattan. London and Paris expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family, the royalist and Bonapartist nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making the Riffle | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...fair return for the lavish displays of foods, fireworks and fineries laid out in her honor at every turn, Elizabeth dazzled her hosts with her own rarest jewels, including an emerald tiara intertwined with diamonds formerly owned by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, wife of the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and the famed 26-carat pink diamond from the mines of Tanganyika that was a wedding gift to Elizabeth. Beneath her glittering tiaras, the Queen's smile was invariably radiant. But perhaps the diplomatic device by which Elizabeth most thoroughly endeared herself to the exquisitely gowned ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vive la Reine! | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Kicking off its annual spring promotion next week, Nieman-Marcus of Texas will spend more than $250,000 on lavish circus-theme extravaganzas for its stores in Dallas and Houston, will cover floors with sawdust, fill windows with monkeys, send clowns cavorting among customers. To publicize Eagle Food Centers, a grocery chain with 29 supermarkets in Iowa and neighboring states, Joe Louis was hired last week to demonstrate basic boxing blows in rings set up in the chain's parking lots, give inspirational talks to young customers, stressing right living and good (i.e., Eagle) eating. Ex-champ Louis will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTION: Boomlay Boom | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky's Representative Andrew ("Handy Andy") Jackson May, who was convicted with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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