Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intense and indefatigable though he was, De Lattre seemed, to U.S. friends who knew him in the past, a subdued man in contrast to World War II days, when he used to play host at lavish parties and declaim his own poetry at the dinner table. The death of his son has hit him very hard. Sometimes a sudden memory will wring from him an uncontrollable sob. He is, like MacArthur, essentially an old-fashioned man who believes unbendingly in the old-fashioned virtues-but also in the new-fashioned ways of waging war. "The only thing," says De Lattre...
...About Eve), Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz now turns a critical eye on one of the nation's most revered sacred cows: the medical profession. In the third installment of his continuing probe of U.S. manners & morals, Mankiewicz argues that medicine needs more physicians like eccentric Gary Grant, whose lavish clinic is run on the theory that the sick are guests, not inmates, and should never be wakened at 6 in the morning for compulsory baths and breakfasts...
...replied Bierstedt, "has gone up to $100." Sorry, said the publisher, we can't afford it: we contribute to scholarship by bringing out books that will never make money. "Such solicitude [for scholarship]," wrote Bierstedt, "is touching"-but he had seen too many lavish dinners go on publishers' expense accounts. "Professors may be stupid when it comes to dollars," he concluded, "but they know a little something about dialectic...
...entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million a year. "Too bad," said Phoebe Hearst sweetly. "Then he'll only last 30 years...
...lavish ($6,500,000) production of MGM's supercolossal Quo Vadis, which was filmed with the help of 30,000 extras along the banks of the Tiber, amused some Italian onlookers almost as much as it impressed others. Last week in Rome, the Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali finished a good-humored satire called O.K. Nerone (rhymes with Peron-eh), a slapstick take-off on Quo Vadis in particular and extravagant U.S. movie spectacles in general...