Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honolulu. On Sand Island, largest of the three coral atolls of the Midway Group, a small village hummed where once had been little but sandy scrub, jungle, coral rock. Trees, imported from Hawaii by the advance construction crew on the steamer North Haven, gave the place a look of lush tropical elegance...
...lush 1920's there mushroomed in the U. S. the Little Theatre Movement in which strictly art-for-art's-sake productions were presented by serious amateurs, earnest dilettantes. Far more serious, far more earnest is the Depression-born movement of workers' theatres which are currently putting on "agitprop" (agitational propaganda) plays in 300 U. S. cities...
...pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen...
...Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative way out of the cotton crisis...
...happen to be in a light opera mood, the screen rendition of "Naughty Marietta" now playing at Loew's State will please the ear and delight the eye. Jeannette MacDonald, lush and smiling, is at her best as the French princess who flees to New Orleans to escape a rich but gouty husband-elect. In the part of the mercenary Captain who conquers her heart in the New World, Nelson Eddy makes his first bow before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality...