Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maceos became top dogs of Galveston's illegal enterprises during the noisy era of Prohibition, and quietly expanded into the gambling field with a series of increasingly lush "clubs." They kept things quiet, and Galveston, which has a remarkable tolerance for slot machines, bars and bordellos, left them strictly to their own devices. Only the Texas Rangers tried to give them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band...
...sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them all-the great valley around Logan . . . the very core and fruit of Canaan-a vast sweet plain of unimaginable riches-loaded with fruit, lusty with cherry orchards, green with its thick and lush fertility and dotted everywhere with the beauty of incredible tree...
...closing I must compliment the Advocate business board for procuring a lush three page Anti-Vivisection advertisement (which must have done the coffers a lot of good through it rather disfigures the back pages of the magazine). Perhaps the editors will use the profits to hire a professional proof-reader next year...
...this early period has several unfamiliar features which makes it difficult to grasp at first hearing. Landini cadences (familiar to all Music 1 students) appear frequently and contrast with the more modern dominant-tonic resolution. And the rather empty open fifth chords are a welcome relief after the lush harmonies of more recent composers...
Bevan acted after a week of soul-searching and intense pressure from many of his left-wing followers. His lifelong friend and political mentor, Archie Lush (until recently Bevan's political agent in Ebbw Vale), visited London and insisted that it was Bevan's duty to save and purify the government's Socialist principles. More pressure came from Bevan's wife Jennie Lee, M.P., his fellow rebel Michael Foot, M.P., and cabinet colleague and co-agitator Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade. Day after Bevan resigned, Wilson handed Attlee his own resignation...