Word: lavishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lavish Costumes...
...only did Edward demand of his friend such constant and lavish hospitality that his financial ruin was inevitable, but he made him the butt of more & more brutal practical jokes. Through it all, through ridicule, poverty, and obsolescence, Christopher remained a faithful paladin, faithful unto death, which he incurred through obeying a royal summons when...
...many such jobs, Lord admits, Argentina will need U.S. help. By lavish spending, Argentina has pretty well used up its once fat foreign exchange hoard. For $5 wheat it now gets mostly I.O.U.s. Even the millions the U.S. is likely to spend in Argentina for ERP foodstuffs will help little, warns Lord, unless Argentina is allowed to buy U.S. machinery with it. "Steel," says he, "is the key to Argentina's program, and they will have...
Last week, pleased by one accomplishment but alarmed by the other, the New Republic was shaken by another surge of frantic economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine...
...krewes cut across a dozen social strata. There are Italian krewes, Irish krewes, German krewes. There are krewes for college men, businessmen, professional men. To the horror of New Orleans' old guard, there are even krewes for women. Each seemed determined that its ball should be as lavish as the next. Queens of new krewes were not always debutantes, but all-like pretty Shirley Ray Toups (see cut), who reigned over the Bards of Bohemia ball-were gorgeously gowned...