Word: flashiest
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Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...Portugal's Strongman Antonio Salazar did their joint best to brighten the conference. The flashiest of Salazar's honor troops turned out for the guests. Lampposts gleamed with fresh paint. As a final measure of thoughtfulness the government clapped the city's 400 beggars into jail for the duration of the conference. But what helped most was some smart advance diplomacy...
...Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...
...their favorite hotel. A shrewd New York merchant snapped up brass doorknobs and key plates for resale as souvenirs. Last week, when the Ritz finally closed its doors, the hotel owners decided to auction off the furniture, rugs, mirrors, fireplaces and dishes, glassware and silver with the Ritz crest. Flashiest buyer: wealthy Texas Publisher Amon Carter, who bought the famed men's bar as a present for his son, and two elevator cages to be used as powder rooms in his Fort Worth home...
Pittsburgh-born Enroll Garner, playing trademark tunes such as When Johnny Comes Marching Home and My Heart Stood Still, displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat...