Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobs. Soon the streets' mood changed. The omnipresent cheerleaders who before had yelled for "Habib el Shaab" (People's Beloved) added a new cry: "Down with the rule of the twelve." The crowd formed into a mob that surged across the Kasr el Nil bridge, passed the plush Semiramis Hotel and headed for stately Garden City, the embassy row. Soldiers opened fire; twelve fell wounded...
...President stayed at the luxurious ranch home of Paul Hoy Helms, a bakery president and personal friend, at Smoke Tree Ranch, a plush communal enclave of businessmen in Palm Springs. (The Secret Service picked Helms's home instead of the nearby one of Co-Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms...
...McGinnis collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...
IGHUGS, said the spokesmen gathered in the plush, paneled Chicago directors' room of the International Harvester Co., is already backed by the American Medical Association, Avco Manufacturing Corp., General Electric and Sears, Roebuck as well as Quaker Oats, International Harvester and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. U.S. farm organizations have been invited into the act, although thus far with little reaction. By spring, if the hopes of IGHUG's high command come to fruition, 15,000 women's clubs will be dramatizing the words of Founder John McCaffrey, president of International Harvester: "Government, like...
Last week Walter Thornton got 1,000% more publicity than he wanted. Two detectives from the office of Queens County District Attorney T. Vincent Quinn walked into Thornton's plush Park Avenue establishment and placed him under arrest. The charge: obtaining money under false pretenses in his model catalogue business...