Word: plush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
Last week's was the first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren...
...liked to play cards, and two painters found her. She had admitted her murderer in an old house dress and stockinged feet. She had been dead two days. Her two little griffons were wild with hunger. There was $1 in her purse. Around the gaudy little room, all red plush and doll pillows, there were many photographs of skinny little Jack Diamond. One was inscribed: "My Hero...
...looking at a black mass of criss-crossed logs, insulated from the pavement by sand. A thumping band blared out old military marches. Toward midnight a procession entered the square, headed by officers of the University's student dueling corps in their dress uniforms: blue tunics, white breeches, plush tam o'shanters and spurred patent leather jack boots. Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students clung to the trucks, waving flaring torches that they hurled through the air at the log pile. Blue flames of gasoline shot...
...that the season was opening at the dingy, yellow brick opera house. Cordons of police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini...