Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental: the few blunt words dropped here and there to describe a purple butte or a lush valley are almost touching, naively juxtaposed as they are to accounts of gory Indian fights and saloon shootings...
...Pensions of $15 a month for all widows and orphans of the World War-a brand new proposal which was not law even in the lush pension days of Coolidge and Hoover...
...side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot Thus, in the lush verses of II Kings 9, died Jezebel, famed oldtime hussy. Buried more than two millennia ago, Jezebel's tower was uncovered by Harvard's Dr. Kirsopp Lake. Some 30 ft. high (probably much higher originally), it was composed of granite blocks set three deep, so that the total
...inconsistencies only in order to dismis them airily, to raise the question of mortality merely as an excuse for a display of nostalgic faith. No individual can accompany Dr. Watson into No. 221-B Baker St. without feeling these things; yet, unfortunately for Mr. Starrett, an age which contemns lush sentimentality, compells the individual to avoid, as evidence of good taste, public confession of them. In writing this present biography, then, Mr. Starrett must have been in something of a quandary. If he failed to give his exclamation points free rein, devotees would find him privately insensate...
...crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...