Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First the maestro had been moved out of NBC's big, cerise plush Studio 8-H (now being converted into a TV theater) into Carnegie Hall. He had not objected too much: Carnegie is acoustically superior to Studio 8-H. But then NBC suggested a further move, to the unfamiliar Manhattan Center Studio. A final crowning blow to Toscanini, the story went, was the decision to shift his time to 10 o'clock (E.S.T.) Monday nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded...
From her $61-a-day suite in San Francisco's plush-and-gilt Fairmont Hotel, Egypt's Queen Mother Nazli, newly dispossessed by son King Farouk because she approved her daughter's marriage to a non-Moslem, thought it over, announced: "Maybe I should...
...family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside to have class, and class costs, these days...
...chances of making 28 straight passes with the dice in a crap game are "about ten million to one." But last week a young man walked into Las Vegas' plush new Desert Inn, and in one hour and 20 minutes of hair-raising play, did just that. His amazing run of luck cost the casino $125,000. Zeppo Marx won $28,000 in side bets, Gus Greenbaum, one of the owners of a rival club, raked in $48,000, and others among the gamblers who crowded four-deep around the table carried off thousands more...
Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...