Word: lavishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this gets started in a very leisurely fashion, but it is done with firm taste and imaginativeness. People who like their horror dished up with a lavish hand are liable to become restless. But they will do well to keep their seats: the time soon comes when a seat is handy for hanging onto...
King without a Visa. In Brazil, another royal D.P. had been sitting on his packed bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...
...were negligible. This year, Oxford University Press's reprinting of Is He Popenjoy? has been completely sold out, along with most other reprints of Trollope in Oxford's admirable World Classics Series. To crown the Trollope revival, Doubleday Doran has republished, at a fancy price and with lavish, Dickensian illustrations. Trollope's most popular novel, Barchester Towers...
...Englishman arriving in this country since the [British] election declares that the American soldier had as much to do with the result as any single factor. The American Army camped a long time on British soil, and left a deep and disquieting impression, he said. . . . The lavish habits and easy manners of the G.I. attracted the girls, the girls wanted to marry America, and in the drab, hard years of the war young people in general became discontented with a life that offered them so much less than the United States seemed to provide for its citizens. They voted...
...Showman. But when Jeffers became U.P. president in 1937, Big Bill developed a broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner...