Word: lavishness
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...Dallas were losing rail passenger service, Garfield and his associates then turned to the public, sold 700,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share to buy equipment. Thus they are launching their operation debt-free. The Seaboard Coast Line provides the crews, maintenance and track for this lavish overland cruise...
...Lavish Meal. Unable to find work and oppressed by the poverty of the city, Joe leaves for the West, riding the rails and enjoying the vagrant's life. In every town he sees labor organizers being routed by cops and strikers being ridden out of town in boxcars. It is enough to convince him-if not the audience-that he must join the I.W.W., and the songs that he composes set the movement to music...
...performing music. The next time Joe Hill appears on a soapbox he has his own I.W.W. song in hand -set to the tune of a Salvation Army hymn. People gather around and the police are temporarily thwarted. In another town, Joe goes into a restaurant and deliberately orders a lavish meal that he cannot pay for! Banished to the kitchen to wash dishes, he persuades the help to strike...
...Swine Building, Brobdingnagian hogs slumber peacefully in their stalls. Photographs of the various Quality Pork Champions are posted on a bulletin board in two neat rows, like so many Miss Rheingold winners on a barroom wall. The most frenetic activity takes place in the Livestock Pavilion, where coveralled owners lavish on their animals care that would do credit to Elizabeth Arden. In one stall a West Texas matron in toreador pants, see-through blouse and perhaps the last bouffant hairdo in Western civilization teased the tip of her Hereford's tail with a hot comb. Her loving efforts were...
...liked Love Story, you may not love "Sexual Intimacy." True, many of the cases deal with very stylish and romantically inclined college students who carry on their affairs in all kinds of lavish and unusual settings. But none of them has the relatively uncomplicated progression of Ollie and Jenny's courtship. These accounts are most concerned with the unforseen conflicts of heterosexual intimacy in a country and time when ambivalent attitudes toward the morality of sex prevail and the connection between sex and love is only beginning to be openly explored outside the context of courtship and marriage...