Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter and a Senator's niece to get this lush comedy in production...
...ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early in Act I. But Producer White has another expensive baritone, Walter Woolf. ready to step into the breach and lush, blonde Miss Herbert is happily reincarnated, thus holding the stage to the end. If you are patient and like Romberg music, you should enjoy yourself at Melody...
Last week Nat Burns, Googie Allen, General Cigar and their admen, J. Walter Thompson Co., fairly dithered with excitement over a lush harvest of free publicity. It all derived from a neat stunt concerning Gracie Allen's "lodge," incredible and wholly mythical brother in which Columbia Broadcasting System happily cooperated. On every Wednesday night program for nearly a year Gracie has been piping stories of this brother who invented a way of manufacturing pennies for 3?, who printed a newspaper on Cellophane so that when dining in restaurants he could watch his hat & coat, who hurt his leg falling...
Fortnight ago a succession of lush, heavily framed portraits passed across the stage of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries. In the mannerly, well dressed crowd fingers snapped and pencils rose actively, and from his pulpit Auctioneer Otto Bernet bounced prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded...
...drink bad whiskey and gin, little beer. Water is precious yet Denver wastes it. Says the Water Board: "Once you get hold of a flow of water, if you don't use it you forfeit it to someone who will." Last week, however, citizens were allowed to water their lush, green lawns for only three hours in the evening, one side of the street watering one day, the opposite side the next...