Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools and colleges, cost much less than individual policies. Since a football team could be insured for an estimated $10 to $15 per player under group programs, the House Committees could bear the cost of premiums. Insurance for House teams is more important than new pool tables or more lavish smokers. An insurance plan underwritten by each House would protect all intramural football players, sparing injured athletes uncertainty and unjust expense...
...lure U.S. tourists scared off by its growing reputation as a center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
...just how well they executed their "box steps" and such advanced maneuvers as the "triple twinkle" and the "conversation corkscrew." The guests were almost all students of Arthur Murray, most successful dancing teacher in the world. The occasion: opening night of Murray's 308th and most lavish dance studio...
...such, it will be in complete contrast to the lavish affairs of the 19th and early 20th century. The installation of A. Lawrence Lowell in 1909 climaxed the trend towards lavishness with a three-day affair before an audience of 13,000 people...
...California pulse-feelers debated how much of The Robe's success could be credited to CinemaScope and how much to the lavish production itself and its smasheroo promotion campaign. A few suspected its triumph might be due to the simple fact that with all its spectacular slickness, The Robe was based on a great theme (Christ's passion) written by a popular storyteller (the late Lloyd C. Douglas). As Samuel Goldwyn remarked: "In any consideration of new dimensions for motion pictures, the fact still remains that the most important dimension is that of the story...