Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Namatjira was back in his simple wooden house in Hermannsburg after his first trip to eastern Australia. Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II. After being presented to the Queen, he attended a lavish state ball where the tables groaned with caviar and pheasant. Commented Albert, who still eats honey ants at home: "Good tucker...
...Academy of Music while still in rehearsal, and joined forces with a melodrama rehearsing at Niblo's Garden. Though presumably an account of how-via The Black Crook-American musicomedy was born, it seems an account of how it died. Few recent musicals have been more lavish, fewer still so long-winded...
There has often been temptation to be irresponsible. Sammons and his staff have been threatened with lawsuits and physical violence, and have been offered everything from cash bribes and lavish gifts to orders for thousands of copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...found was only two to three inches thick (Iowa topsoil formed under permanent grass is often 18 inches thick). Below this was sterile subsoil, and when the plow mixed the two together, the blend was low in nearly everything that a good soil should have. It was not the lavish virgin soil of popular fancy...
...Harvard. This prestige can only come through experimentation. Lacking a drama department that would recruit talent with subsidies such as a degree for study that is essentially vocational rather than academic, Harvard cannot compete with the theatre factories of California and Florida. Productions here can be neither so lavish nor numerous; they must be more imaginative...