Word: overgrown
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...employees from just under 6,000 to 30,000, its sales to $125 million in 1945. At World War II's end, when Mitchell moved into the presidency, he figured he would be lucky to keep as much as $33 million of Sylvania's overgrown sales. Instead, he chalked up $69 million in the first postwar year, $95 million in the next, kept boosting sales until last year they passed the wartime peak. To Sylvania's original lines-incandescent bulbs, radio tubes, photoflash bulbs and radios-he added television sets and tubes...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...
...corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
...young hack scripter (William Holden), broke, desperate, and pursued by his creditors, ducks his car up a Sunset Boulevard driveway and blunders into an eerie survival of an extinct world. In the moldering, overgrown grounds he finds a mausoleum-like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous detail. It is inhabited by two living relics: Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a great star of the silent movies, still wealthy, with an arrogant grandeur once rooted in fame and now propped by delusion; Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), once a great director (which Von Stroheim was), now her devoted...
Tennis Player Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, whose lengthy pigtails have become almost as famous as her lace panties, shocked her admirers by appearing at the London airport with a "sort of an overgrown urchin cut." Explained Gussie: "They were getting on my nerves. I got up this morning and there was my hair down the back of my neck. So I got out my scissors and snipped...