Word: lush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finer points of fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels...
...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
...West, but this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada. Over-the-road and other heavy duty truck drivers will come first. Later checks would tap cabbies, milk drivers and other workers in the domain ("everything on wheels") that Beck covets. Major target is the lush crop of unorganized truckers carting perishables from the South...
Summer snows rest eternally on the high, craggy peaks of the Russian Caucasus mountains where the loftiest pinnacle in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, reaches 18,481 feet into the sky. Yet the deep green Caucasus valleys are lush with camphor trees, tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure...
...drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades and cavernous interiors were patterns for many an American municipal building, railway station, temple of industry and commerce...