Word: plush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
Patti surrounded herself with cockatoos and basked in vanity. The careers of Garden, Farrar and Jeritza have been bright with jewels, racy with escapades. But Lotte Lehmann is just a singer. Her childhood in Perleberg, Germany, was plain. She remembers red plush furniture, a feeble-minded grandfather in an embroidered velvet cap, an understanding mother who on Christmas day played Santa Claus. Her father, a small-town official, was determined that his daughter should be a school-teacher because schoolteachers get pensions. Lotte Lehmann is already assured of a pension-from the proud Vienna Opera of which...
...Lehmann is no exception. In her dressing-room she keeps photographs of "mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Mann und mein Bruder Fritz." She kisses them all and takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social...
...power of the film is brought out in these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...
...opulent plush-carpeted Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries of Manhattan held an important, impressive display of landscapes last week. Reviewing the development of that field of art from the 16th to the 19th Century, they were able to find in their vaults such impressive masterpieces as a St. Jerome in the Wilderness by Paolo Veronese, a murky Spanish scene by Murillo. a rainy day in the English hills by Gainsborough, not to mention Constables, Cromes, and a fine Corot of the best period. The show represented a great deal of money, but critics and visitors neglected it for the corridor and side...