Word: lush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, at week's end, a Carnegie Hall audience, harder to please, discovered that a French orchestra is more than just another orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's finest sounded a little thin. True to French tradition, the woodwind choir was outstanding (many a top U.S. woodwind player learned his trade from the French). Some in the audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that...
...couple spent most of their time in Britain, where they lived in lush disregard for austerity. The Maharaja lengthened his fabulous string of race horses (estimated to be worth $1,000,000), built a chromium-studded training establishment atop Warren Hill, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (despite local indignation over this use of scarce building materials...
...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...
...Camargo is a 61-year-old professor of agriculture who has a program for turning 40% of Brazil from a liability into an asset. For seven sweat-soaked years, he has labored in the steaming valley of the Amazon, that lush jungle which is more than four times as large (1,175,000 square miles) as the state of Texas...
...through no fault of his own, had not had much of a life. Alberto lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave him to Mussolini, who imprisoned him. In his years as an exile lacometti...