Word: lavishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
...only G.I.s who think U.S. decorations are too lavish and too hit-or-miss. Last week a general joined their ranks...
...present wife's three children by a former marriage, for a Christmas banquet each year. It seems to come off amicably. Besides running his 1,050-acre plantation like a patriarch, he has dabbled in politics with more expense than success. In 1942, he roamed the state providing lavish free meals and exhibiting his flowing locks and friendly grin to the populace, came within 200 votes of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. Since then he has established an anti-New Deal paper called the Jefferson Republican, which he sends monthly at his own expense to a mailing...
...Paris in the days of Empress Eugenie. Prince Metternich took one horrified gander at its neo-Homeric ribaldry, primly led his wife to the nearest exit. But La Belle Hélène outlived Metternich. Last week, in a new version called Helen Goes to Troy, a lavish $140,000 Manhattan production that seemed likely to become Broadway's latest smash-hit musical, it was still going strong...
...infantryman has trucks to transport him and vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there are probably...