Word: over-lush
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Clea, by Lawrence Durrell. The concluding novel in the author's exotic, brilliant and often over-lush tetralogy about contemporary Alexandria...
...feud began in 1938, when MacLeod's Magazine-sister publication of the Post -published an article called "Canada's Armament Mystery." Written by Lieut. Colonel George Drew, it exposed a deal wherein the Government financed a private company to manufacture Bren guns for Britain at over-lush profits. Two days later the Post led a press crusade for a Royal Commission investigation. The Government denounced the article as "scurrilous and irresponsible." But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled...
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