Word: plush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contending with such excellence, and often winning the fall: the purple-plush artiness, 200-proof corn and gross sentimentality which Ben Hecht often fails to separate from the honest and original features of his talent...
...Chase. Last week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...Army's A-bomb man, plush-bottomed, stuffy Major General Leslie R. Groves, announced that he wanted the reporters at Operation Crossroads "locked up on the press ship, taken out to a certain point, write what they can see of the explosion, and then send them back home." The Navy said it wanted the Bikini tests treated like "the story of the year, maybe of the decade, and possibly of a lifetime." By last week it was plain that the Navy (and the press...
...watering-down will persist at least another half-decade. For the individual, eight terms in Cambridge are more than ever a matter of what he chooses to make them. The resources of a distinguished university are still available; they are simply being worked much more intensively. Harvard's plush may be wearing thin, but the foundation and the framework are still first-rate...
...plush Park Hotel, two rings of the circus had been set up: 1) in the grand ballroom, to try Lieut. Granville Cubage on charges of cruelty to prisoners; 2) in a less pretentious setting, to try Lieut. Leonard W. Ennis on similar charges. Two other chambers were carefully swept and dusted each day in case the top command decided to run a four-ring circus. Twelve more defendants were awaiting trial...