Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge opening-night program featured no fewer than 13 separate items, from brief solo dances and pas de deux to the whole third act from Romeo and Juliet. For Western tastes, the costumes were both overly lavish and tacky (although the ballerinas are usually sewn into them), and the sets seemed stodgy. But the dancing was just about as good as legend...
...heels of an insurgent victory in the New Haven battle, Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman unseated (307,859 votes to 219,373) the management of the 1,397-mile Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, whose main line runs from Minneapolis to Peoria, 111. Heineman, who built his campaign around the lavish expense accounts (up to $100,000 in one year) of Board Chairman Lucian C. Sprague, plans to trim expenses, raise dividends...
...Beautiful Sea (music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Dorothy Fields; book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields) is a cheerful spot, at least till the tide starts running out. A lavish musical about early-in-the-century Coney Island, it has a bright and diverting first act, and it has Shirley Booth all the way. Shirley Booth may not be to musicomedy what Ethel Merman or Mary Martin is, but she is one of the wonders of show business. Her personal warmth almost seems to constitute (or render superfluous) a style of acting: her Lottie Gibson seems a triumph of little...
...shares of stock, or less than ½ of 1%." Said White, in his letter: "What is involved ... is the attempt of a promoter and pseudo railroad man, Robert R. Young, to seize control of the company . . . As a railroad executive. Mr. Young has been found to be lavish in his ideas and the expenditure of money . . . The choice which you have to make is between the promoter type of management and the experienced professional type...
Louis was lavish and was served by 500 attendants, whom he boarded and housed. The money, of course, came from the people. Versailles' cost swallowed three out of every five francs collected in taxes, and nobody will ever know the price of building it. When Frangois Mansard, the King's architect, appeared with his bill, it was a shock even to openhanded Louis. He blanched, and burned the evidence...