Word: lush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Tennessee's criminals toiled for the greater glory of Crump. His judges sent many a state prisoner to the Shelby County Penal Farm, a self-supporting agricultural institution so lush, so green, so magnificently stocked with prize cattle, prize horses, prize hogs, prize mules and chickens that many a west Tennessee farmer scrubbed his eyes in disbelief at the sight...
Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside Gibraltar which sent "gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks" to the lush court of King Solomon...
...script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...built as a memorial to the Harvard dead of the Second World War, the Student Council has simultaneously advanced solutions for two prime University needs: an appropriate war memorial and a home for extra-curricular activities. A war memorial will be erected, and since ornate Gothic piles and lush statuary are no longer held in good repute, a living, functioning testimonial must be found. Nothing could more closely match the description than a structure dedicated to the advancement of the arts, publications, and discussion. In the years ahead, Harvard men using the proposed Activities Center would be propagating those very...