Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour for Chesterfield cigarets (WABC), he prepared to launch what his sponsors declare is a new musical style, presenting brief, "streamlined" versions of symphonic works...
...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
...Washington last week Juan Terry Trippe, affable, granitic president of Pan American Airways, received from the hands of President Roosevelt the bronze certificate of award of the Collier Trophy, bestowed every year for distinguished service to aviation. The trophy itself, a lush piece of statuary two feet high, stood on the President's desk. The National Aeronautic Association, which decides each year's winner, awarded the trophy this year to Pan American Airways for "establishment of the trans-Pacific airline and the successful execution of extended over-water navigation and the regular navigation thereof." Trumpeted Collier...
...call. Last week it was the turn of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Baron Constantin von Neurath, to go to Rome. Count Ciano welcomed his portly confrere who rode around town and laid wreaths on appropriate tombs, ended up with a champagne-popping at Villa Madama, Rome's lush residence for distinguished guests...
...pango-pango) on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak of a mountain called "The Rainmaker." There three months ago a Pan American airport crew set up a base, installed a direction finder in an abandoned mission. Ever since, the natives have been in a dither. Last week, as the Clipper creased the smooth waters...