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Word: lavishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Alma Morgenthau to support the creation of new music. But today, U.S. composers are witnessing the most lavish patronage boom they have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Patronage | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...from the University of Oregon. In two years he was the dean of the law school. One of his students was Dick Neuberger, and the professor had profound and lasting influence on the young man. It was Morse who saved Neuberger in the now famous cribbing incident. Neuberger made lavish use of his unlimited cuts in a class in law bibliography, was absent when the instructor announced that the usual consultation among students would not be allowed at the next assignment. Unaware of the injunction, Neuberger consulted freely with a fellow student, was promptly found guilty of violating the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two for the Show | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Before 1936, Buenos Aires was notorious as a main terminal in the international white-slave trade, and bordellos flourished in every Argentine city. One of the most lavish was Madam Safe's spacious chalet in the city of Rosario. The staircases were marble, the curtains red velvet, the bedclothes silk, the girls mainly French or Polish, and the going rate about the equivalent of an average white-collar worker's weekly wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Back to the Bordello | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...contemporaries, the 18th century was the Age of Elegance, one of those brief moments in history when man can abandon himself to the art of living. Warmed by the afterglow of France's great Sun King, Louis XIV, the Versailles court lived a lavish life. Its taste and style were enviously mimicked in the other courts of Europe and in the newly decorated salons of Paris' prosperous bourgeoisie. The age's artists par excellence were Francois Boucher and his brilliant pupil, Jean Honore Fragonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: ELEGANT LINES FROM AN ELEGANT AGE | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...visit their native land flush with the prosperity of half a lifetime in the U.S. They call them heelobowie, a rough approximation of "hello boy." In many a Greek village, the returning heelobowie ranks almost as a patron saint; each village strives to outdo its neighbors in providing a lavish welcome for him, and even after his return to the land of his adoption, legends of his largesse live on among the villagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Hizzoner the Heelobowie | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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