Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What revenge Artos takes when he returns to find himself cuckolded may be left to the discovery of readers whose hair does not curl easily. The props with which Author Treece outfits his plot appear to be as accurate as a mobile museum of medieval antiquities, and he is lavish with local color, mostly bloodred. Some will doubtless regret Treece's crockery-clattering upsetting of the old round table. But the fact is that while good King Arthur could exist only in storybooks, Artos the Bear has enough gristle-and-bone reality to have actually galloped across the misty...
...Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, is mystifying. But he does, with some success, and the achievement is a tribute to his resourcefulness. The Loesser book is virtually non-existent, his music often ordinary, and his lyrics scarcely distinguished. However, the production itself, directed by Joseph Anthony, is lavish and superbly polished. Though the play lacks the three or four show-stopping songs which make a musical into a classic, through its immensity of scope and professional flashiness, it is a success...
...Many Headaches." McGinnis, 51, was derailed because stockholders were troubled not only by commuter complaints but also by financial danger signals ahead. "His lavish payment of dividends and his diminishing payments for maintenance made it certain that a crisis would arise," said Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s President Morgan B. Brainard Sr., who resigned from the board twelve months ago and unloaded substantial holdings of New Haven stock held by his company. Major stockholders, looking for a new president, tried to hire Werter S. Hackworth, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. Snorted Hackworth: "Too many commuters...
Under the New Economic Policy laid down in 1952, a conspicuous group of near-millionaires has arisen. A "Gold Coast" of California-style villas has sprung up north of Tel Aviv, where the wives of the new $50,000-a-year men vie in entertaining ambassadors or ministers at lavish dinner parties. Bustling crowds, looking like anything but refugees from East European ghettos in their crisp frocks or open-necked, short-sleeved shirts tucked into belted slacks, hurry through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita...
...Ford Foundation's allocation of $500 million in charitable grants to education and medicine climaxed a year in which U.S. charitable foundations handed out or committed almost $1 billion, a record total nearly doubling the 1954 figure. The prime reason for all this lavish giving was that high taxes make generosity an inexpensive proposition. The effect of taxes on charity was succinctly explained by New York Welfare Commissioner Henry L. McCarthy: "You have to spend money to save money." One of the best ways to do both, as an increasing number of businessmen and corporations are finding...