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...before the American Revolution. Coleridge, Lamb and Wordsworth were among its writers. Imperialist and conservative, it snorted bitterly against any change even in its own party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt to restore circulation. This year it was down to 116,000 and everybody in Fleet Street knew...
...windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne car and probably planned to pay for it. G-men stood guard over it last week on the chance that he might show...
...yesterday a pair of the shortlegged, long-bodied specie of dogs was found about Winthrop House from which they were taken to Apted's office, where they spent the day reclining on his red plush window seat. They will be returned when the owners come for them, soon, Mr. Apted hopes...
What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...
Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...