Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winchell is a member of a minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims...
...Young to Kiss (MGM) starts inauspiciously by presenting Van Johnson as the stereotype of a famed concert impresario who reigns, suave and multilingual, over plush offices swarming with international artistes. But this bobby-soxer's S. Hurok quickly becomes the butt of a pleasant little comedy by the scripting team (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett) of Father of the Bride...
From the start at San Francisco, the Russians left no doubt that they were out to wreck or delay the peace conference. Even before Conference President Dean Acheson finished his opening remarks from the stage of the gilt and red plush Opera House, Andrei Gromyko was demanding to be heard. Why, he wanted to know, had Red China not been invited? Calmly, Acheson declared that the Russian delegate was out of order. Two hours and eleven Red protests later, Gromyko's chance for a filibuster was gone. The conference had adopted a rule limiting each delegation...
...What depth of shame do we lie in," muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, "when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust and sigh? It is the dog going back to his vomit, attracted to it by a simple miracle...
...Society, which announced the names of the new Junior Fellows last night, is made up of eight permanent Senior Fellows, and 20 to 24 Junior Fellows. Formed in 1933, it combines the two most characteristic Harvard qualities--complete academic freedom and a somewhat notorious reputation for plush conditions and gracious living...