Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Onion Association and chairman of a committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." Owning his own company almost entirely, he lives prosperously with his wife in a colonial house at Manhattan Beach, is particularly proud of a swimming pool, a tennis court, a lavish doll house he has built for his four children. Says he: "I give them everything I didn...
...week under Socialist Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what kind of regime they toil under- brought into genial conference...
...been a welcome addition to Hollywood for his social talents alone. He had other ones as well. He was so modest that, in a community where a private telephone number is considered the ultimate in self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare, he made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout...
...Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde who ran afoul of Charles II. The British press saluted the banquet as ''the most lavish State luncheon since pre-War days...
...Shall We Dance" possesses the merit of being no more nor less than it pretends to be, witty dialogue, Gershwin music, lavish production, preposterous situations, and those four specialists, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore, and Edward Everett Horton. If the audience ever liked the ingredients, it will like the film since all the elements are proportionately balanced and put together in one performance which is all component and not at all discordant...