Word: plush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presenting "My Life With Caroline" and "The Get-Away" for its double-barreled opening of the plush-lined Peanut Gallery season, Harvard Square's cinematic palace has left ample room for improvement during the year. But while this bill isn't going to paralyze registration, it does offer the usual quiet refuge from the carnage of the Square on opening days...
Staged on a green-plush polo field, framed by giant trees, dogs are benched under gay-colored canvas tops, exhibited on little red runways bordered with bright flowers. By noon last week there were 40,000 spectators gathered around the 65 judging rings. For the curious there was a special treat: four little brow-furrowed Basenjis, English refugees, shown by Dr. A. R. B. Richmond of Toronto...
...press generally hailed the new tax proposals, prayed that Congress would have the nerve to cut out the non-defense plush trimmings and tax the sap out of the citizenry. Probability was that Congress would finally whip itself into such a hypnotic frenzy of patriotism and concern that it would pass a much-less-cowardly-than-average tax bill...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...Adem, constructed at enormous expense for a permanent airdrome, one British mechanized patrol counted the charred fuselages of 40 planes, burned and twisted by R. A. F. bombs. The runways were pitted with a lacework of craters. The hangars and machine shops were battered to rubble. The plush officers' quarters, completed down to tile bathrooms, were sagging ruins. At El Gubbi the story was the same. At El Gazála they found 35 more wrecked planes. The Italians had abandoned their air bases as far west as Dérna, acknowledging British dominance in the air over...