Word: high-class
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...emphasize the familiar script Chicago emblem on the cover, put their pictures up front for the first time, and try a different musical tack. They even use the Bee Gees for background vocals on one song. But the similarities are more important than the changes. Hot Streets is another high-class Chicago album, another platinum-to-be. Chicago is "Alive Again...
...from "The Ron LeFlore Story," former Nixon administration officials could bound from the jail cells to take over the heights of the sporting world. Scrupulous H.R. Haldeman would be the logical choice to take over the Pirates, heavyweight John Mitchell might find a home in the world of high-class professional wrestling, and sentimental Charles Colson, who once vowed that he would walk over his own grandmother if the need arose, could try his hand managing the New York Mets, whose quality of play often evokes grandmotherly epithets. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost limitless...
...most beautiful byōbu is the 17th century Entertainments at a House of Pleasure-an inventory of the resources of a refined, high-class brothel, populated by dozens of crisply drawn, languid silhouettes of women and clients in - and out of- their party kimonos. On the right, above the moon-viewing platform, formal pleasures: the brewing of tea, a game of cards, and a manifestly alcoholic banquet...
...town, some of us decided to add a happy note by placing Norman Thomas in nomination alongside the more obvious choices, such as New York's governer Al Smith, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, and Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. You never saw such amateur but high-class skulduggery on all sides. The Smith adherents brought in a Boston political claque, which crowded into the balcony and roared every time Al Smith's name was uttered, a thing which proved counterproductive, I think. But this first hurrah added to the excitement. Tom Eliot (Class of '28) chaired...
...true, it depends on getting the right people to head the constitutional monarchy. Queen Victoria in her period was the right head of state, and she also had Albert, the Prince Consort, who, if he had lived, would have made a big difference because he was a very, very high-class statesman...