Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOTEL SURGE will lure more note's into $1.5 billion yearly business. Salt Lake City's rich, old (since 1911") Hotel Utah will soon complete West's biggest (154 units), costliest (about $3.5 million) motel within two blocks of hotel. Features: four plush "penthouses," swimming pool, underground auditorium with capacity...
Needed: Money & Skills. Ireland is rolling out the plush green carpet because her few young, overprotected industries do not begin to supply home needs for manufactured goods. Imports last year rose to $512 million, exports stood at $368 million, and Ireland had to battle an overall trade imbalance of $144 million...
...trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of sixteen plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids, and join one of the big five...
What attracts them is the same lure that brings steady crowds of tourists and local fans to the De Luxe Bocce Ball Court, a none-too-plush bar in San Francisco's Italian district: operatic arias and duets, spiritedly and sometimes expertly sung. Most performers are part-time professionals-old opera hands in semiretirement or music students who work and take lessons during the day, sing several nights a week at the bar. There is no honky-tonk hanky-pank at the Bocce; the men, in white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts...