Word: embellishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year" at the tenth anniversary dinner in Manhattan of the Motion Picture Pioneers, told a tall tale of some painstaking work on his forthcoming Samson and Delilah. For ten years, he said, he followed molting peacocks around his 10,000-acre California ranch, collecting the 1,900 feathers which embellish one of the costumes worn in the film by Delilah (Hedy Lamorr...
...ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between...
...With being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...
...keep it confidential. Furthermore, he announced that if private utilities did not care "to undertake the commitment," an unnamed RFC subsidiary would pay the bills. The meeting had not so decided, since both Ickes and the White House think Jesse Jones has too much patronage already. In undertaking to embellish the Administration program. Olds seemed to be undertaking something else: a race with his ex-sponsor Ickes for the job of U.S. energy tsar...