Word: lavishness
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...WILLIAM TELL (New Glaurus, Wis.), an import from Europe, is a lavish adaptation of Schiller's play particularly popular with Wisconsin's Swiss-Americans. At the climax, the Swiss hero draws his bow with fervor, shoots the apple from his son's head (the boy nods on cue, the apple falls, he leans over and picks up another one hidden in the grass with a shill arrow in it). In the audience, half the town roars with pride-the other half is in the play...
...Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...
...their lobbies decorated with poinsettias in July. In San Francisco some artists use the plastics for models in their still lifes. Texas housemaids dust the flowers weekly instead of changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb to blight, drought or neighborhood dogs, many Detroiters have replaced them with artificial blooms to eliminate bare spots in their landscaping. One suburban Dallasite mixed a real and an imitation wisteria vine. "In the summer...
...method of cutting costs: he sacked the bulk of top-salaried employees -which left the New Haven with a chronic shortage of competent executives. In 1954, after a debilitating proxy war, rambunctious Patrick B. McGinnis came in as president; he spent millions to develop futuristic trains and passed out lavish dividends on New Haven preferred stock. When McGinnis departed for the Boston & Maine, he left to his successor and onetime ally, George Alpert, a long-term debt of $200 million...
...small, quiet funeral took place four days later in the placid village cemetery of Ketchum. To the north, the peaks of the rugged Sawtooth Mountains were still capped with snow. To the east lay the lavish summer greenery of the Wood River Valley. Around the rose-covered coffin gathered only about 50 people, mostly Idaho neighbors and some of Hemingway's always-varied circle of friends-a doctor, a rancher, a hotel man, a onetime operator of a gymnasium. "O Lord," prayed Father Robert Waldmann, pastor of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, "grant to thy servant Ernest...