Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscurity of the winner was the fact that its achievement was conservatively defensive against a crusading opposition paper, the News. While the Mail Tribune got the Pulitzer Prize, the News's editor was serving a life sentence in prison. Nestled in the floor of Southern Oregon's lush Rogue River valley, famed for its pears and apples, Medford was a thriving, peace-loving town (pop.: 11,000), loyal to its Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, until Llewellyn A. Banks arrived from Riverside, Calif, in 1925. With him he brought his second wife, two new Cadillacs, 40 suits...
...Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...work of Sanford Ross who, at 27, was holding his third one-man show in Manhattan's swank Reinhardt Galleries. Born in Orange, N. J., Artist Ross by preference paints the jigsaw-tortured mansions which solid New Jersey citizens built and lived in during the last lush years of the 19th Century. Besides the New Jersey pictures, Artist Ross last week showed a series of swift state highways, a snarling pile of junk, several melancholy landscapes, a picture of "The Rocks," Mrs. Henry Clews's Newport residence...
...Harvard '37 30. Goals: Kelley 8, Beckwith 7, Stephenson 5, Gray 3, Carey 3, Miles 3, Mason 2, Michaels 2, Field 1, Moser 1, Havilend 1, McNeeley 1, Morton 1. Free throws: Gray 3, Mason 1, Moser 1, Stephenson 1, Beckwith 1, Miles 1. Referee, Schroeder; umpire, Lush. Time: four 10-minute periods...
...Swift pause, as when he speaks of physical love as "a conjuncture of sewer pipes." But generally Cabell is content to continue astounding the bourgeois by his own superior urbanity. His intelligence and taste alike are now for most readers hopelessly buried under the tricks and oddities of a lush Cabellowing style...