Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every piddling scribbler who happens to be American should rate a course, of course, and the body of American literature is not big enough for a separate department. But certainly if we can lavish a course on "the so-called Scottish Chaucerians, Henry, Dunbar, Douglas and Lindsay," we can afford a course in the exclusive study of contemporary American poetry. Courses like Murdock's old one in the American novel before 1890, and Wilbur's Poe course, should be resurrected. There should be at least one full course in the modern American novel. There could easily be a course...
...member of the British delegation compared the week's touring to that of Americans seeing Europe by bus. Representatives of Turkey felt that the program, although enjoyable, was too lavish, and called such activities as the cruise "too fatiguing for us and too expensive...
...usual definition, the nation's newest magazine is no magazine at all. It has a hard vermilion cover, 48 color pictures, and not even a breath of an ad. Setting for itself the boundless task of scanning all the arts, book-priced ($3.95 in bookstores), Horizon is lavish, brash, wide-ranging...
...same questionnaire, however, each man was asked what kind of car his neighbor wanted. Unfailingly, he reported that the man next door panted for a garish, lavish, multicolored hunk of chrome. The company declared large dividends by producing a car for the neighbor...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...