Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Tammany Tigers to the Pendergasts and Kellys and Crumps, the lore of the bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish extent, Frank Hague went through the same motions. As his monument to motherhood, for example, he left behind him the $1.8 million Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. But Hague was hated and feared, and the secret of his power was that he was feared more than he was hated. Simply...
...them in other countries. One project is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Maritime Trades Institute, a boys' orphanage near Palermo, Sicily, which the I.L.G.W.U. has supported to the tune of $600,000 over the past eight years. Other labor unions (notably the steelworkers and the carpenters) have been lavish, too. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has contributed $600,000 to Israel, $500,000 to eight Italian Boys Towns and to day nurseries over the past decade...
...brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects in key vote areas, Collins beat him 380,323 to 314,198 for the Democratic nomination...
...American architecture, whether along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, Caracas' Avenida Bolivar or São Paulo's Avenida Anhangabaú, has a distinctive look. Almost all Latin American architects use combinations of louvers, grills, projecting concrete slabs and movable screens to control the dazzling sunshine; they share a lavish liking for color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans have seized on its highly...
Citroën threw money around on lavish living, promoted his cars in a manner unheard of in France. He organized a Citroën expedition to Central Asia, another across the Sahara Desert, and put his name in lights on the Eiffel Tower-280,000 bulbs winking in letters 100 ft. high...