Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, straining at conversation: a group of men from the Boston press, a few department store buyers, one or two others. They clutched their drinks nervously, and fenced in, in a corner of the room, the bartender allowed himself a little smile of satisfaction. This was to be the lavish Boston welcome for La Voodoo, a Paris model who represents, so the press releases said, the jungle-like, molten qualities of the Dana Perfume Company's latest seen, "Voodoo...
Humphrey expressed surprise that the "Welfare State" was still an issue. "The only issue now," he claimed, "is whose welfare." Pointing out that business has always received "lavish assistance" from the government, such as the present subsidies for newspapers and magazines, he asked: "If it is desirable for these subsidies to help profits, is it not desirable for them to help the 'little' man achieve a decent standard of living...
...produced by Nancy Stern & George Nichols 3rd) strongly suggests that the printed page is Ludwig Bemelmans' proper habitat. It certainly is for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: the journey from book to stage winds up much more baggage than Bemelmans. Moreover, any show calling for 13 lavish scenes, 50 frenzied characters, a tropical earthquake and the billowing Atlantic Ocean also calls for a composer and a choreographer...
...Secretary's Mirror. The best Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover had been looking in a shaving mirror, generally with satisfaction, for close to half a century. At 62 he was a millionaire, but he still had the reputation of being a frugal man; he considered lavish official entertaining "a waste of money." He lived in a large brick house (rented) on cobbled O Street in fashionable Georgetown, waited on by two servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks...
...oddest devotions to the good time occurred during one of Freddie's lavish Prohibition-era parties. It was a Christmas dinner at Boston's staid Locke-Ober's. The company was high, the food and wines were perfect. Outside the snow fell. But there was one feature missing. Freddie hired a shivering newsboy to press his nose against the window and watch "as we attacked the groaning board...