Word: lavishness
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Lamont Dupont, the original and most lavish hoax, combines heady extravagance with a condescending democracy toward classmates. He "enjoys the sport of kings--falconry"; he has been seen, according to posters, at the Abyssinian royal ball, the Jamaican government congress, and other aristocratic functions. Voting against him is futile since "he owns us all anyway," but freshmen should give him their ballots since "he has condescended...
Added to the three carryovers are three new musicals that rely heavily on lively, lavish productions and name stars: Happy Hunting offers the unmuted brass of Ethel Merman, Bells Are Ringing the smart dumb-blonde antics of Comedienne Judy Holliday, and Li'l Abner the howling hillbillies of Dogpatch plus a display of a lot of a few girls. "There has been a return to the old form of musicals," says Oscar Hammerstein II, looking back over the season to date, "shows with irresponsible, gay books that are fast and lively...
...premium writings" from 25 states. Actually, ICT always lost money. Taking bad fire and casualty risks, it paid out some 61% of its premiums in claims, up to 35% in agents' commissions, 15% in management expenses to Cage, who also enjoyed a reported $40,000 salary and a lavish expense account. Living high, Cage took former Texas Insurance Commission Chairmen Garland A. Smith and J. Byron Saunders on free junkets to Havana and Las Vegas in his private plane...
Hungary's "magnates" (the aristocratic heads of the great families) were Europe's most lavish hosts and its gayest dogs. Theirs was a world of beautiful women, schmalzy music, dashing guardsmen and fox hunts. But Hungary's peasants, whose ranks were filled with the Magyarized descendants of conquered peoples, were more downtrodden than any in Europe...
Under Piasecki's direction, and with the aid of lavish government subsidies, PAX blossomed into a sprawling industrial and propaganda complex. It published magazines and books, controlled factories producing everything from shoes to metal goods, ran its own motor pool, its own high school and hospitals. It also had a lucrative monopoly of the sale of devotional items and religious literature in Poland...