Word: plushness
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...medically exempt from war service). Two days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well as clubs on the bop frontier of "The Street" (West 52nd Street...
...serious tennis player grows up in the shadows of this elitism. Most of the biggest tournaments are held in the richest spots of the country--Marion, Piping Rock, Orange, Lake Forest. Week to week the players are passed from one plush club to the next, mannikins for the wealthy onlookers...
...Thompson heads. He speeds dope-crazed along the desert in a rented convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast sporting magazine to cover the Mint 400, a renowned motorcycle race. But the story is thwarted when the plush and highly sophisticated atmosphere of the race is choked with desert dust, and press coverage becomes as futile as "trying to keep track of a swimming meet in an Olympicsized pool filled with talcum powder instead of water...
...years. After an Army hitch in an Alaska ski troop and several years in his father-in-law's Columbus real estate business, he struck out on his own with $10,000 in borrowed money. Now, twelve years later, a modishly dressed Deffet operates from a plush, mahogany-paneled office...
SLUM. Cheap merchandise given as prizes in hanky panks. Example: a piece of plush, or stuffed animal...