Word: plush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innovation at New Haven and Princeton, while what the men of Cambridge are wearing is neither interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with a burst of derisive laughter say, "Oh! So that...
...Detroit cinemansions with normal audiences of 1,000 reported 50 or 60 customers like plums in the broad acres of vacant plush...
Realistically brown, wearing a baby-blue coat, red pants, patent leather boots and spurs, Tibbett sat himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding...
...Adelina Patti helped dedicate 43 years ago, used to be headquarters for Chicago's social and operatic splendor. Four months after Samuel Insull opened his $20,000,000 skyscraper opera house, the Auditorium went into receivership, grew dingier & dingier while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert to help jobless musicians. Sturdy Frederick Stock conducted the Chicago Symphony augmented...
Just at dark, the night of the Captain's Dinner, all the lights went out. Passengers rushed from the plush-&-gold lounges into a cold drizzle on deck. The crew was piped to stations while excited junior officers pattered up and down staircases, gesticulating. The engines stopped. Then slowly the ship heeled over to starboard. A few passengers went down for their lifebelts...