Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sallying forth from Tam O'Shanter's modernistic, Muzak-wired clubhouse (228 employees, a rash of bars, a swimming pool), Promoter May made occasional rounds of the course with a happy, proprietary air. Far too lavish to make a profit, the tournament's whopping deficit is being underwritten by May's firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been...
Brazil had never seen anything like Ultima Hora (idiomatically: "Up to the Last Minute"). With bright-colored inks on Page One, lavish photographs, six-man reporting teams, cut-rate ads, lotteries and giveaways, Wainer promoted Ultima Hora into top circulation spots in Rio (85,000) and Sao Paulo (90,000). Ungrateful Sammy trained his guns on ex-Boss Chateaubriand's empire (28 newspapers, five magazines, two TV and 19 radio stations), denounced him as a "pirate" and "international rat," ridiculed him in front-page cartoons. Chateaubriand seethed, and bided his time...
...recent years, bellwethered by Britain's literary leprechaun, the late Norman (South Wind) Douglas, many more bored people from the hectic capitals of the world have sought to get away from it all on Capri. They have succeeded only in bringing it all with them. Lavish hotels, boites and bistros, now abound on the island. Tree-lined walks that once soothed lonely philosophers have turned into a midway featuring the most expensive and expendable freaks on earth. Black velvet bullfighters' pants, a strapless bra, a conical hat seemingly made of macaroni, and masses of straw junk-jewelry...
...darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish his wealth on a mere woman. Rumor has it that when the Senator used to take his rich constituent, Mrs. Perle Mesta, out on the town, he called for her by streetcar." Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy (43): "The rough-and-ready type . . . He's eagerly sought after by right...
...object of this lavish praise is a lean and elegant Englishman who divides his time between the sun-swept luxury of the Riviera and the box-hedged comfort of his country home in Kent. He has a pretty and helpful wife, and earns the income, as he puts it, of "a high-grade civil servant." He appears to be almost as much at home in society as in his studio, and is not averse to designing rugs, or painting occasional portraits of the great...