Word: plushness
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...Golden Horseshoe, the place usually reserved for visiting statesmen and royalty, sat a small, aged lady who had once been a washerwoman in Philadelphia. Her name was Anna Anderson. As a girl, her daughter dreamed of singing in this great gilt and plush house. Now, at 52, Contralto Marian Anderson was realizing the dream. The first Negro singer to appear at the Metropolitan, she was making her debut in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera...
...closed Madam Safo's and other plush establishments, but less conspicuous brothels continued to operate, and free-lance pickups, of course, kept hard at work...
...work and play, Toledo Lawyer Edward K. ("Ted") Lamb easily matches the conventional picture of a capitalist. His Edward Lamb Enterprises, Inc. includes six radio and TV stations, the Erie (Pa.) Dispatch and six manufacturing concerns, with a total value of more than $30 million. He flies to plush ski resorts in his blue-grey Aero Commander, has an autograph collection valued at more than $50,000, and lives in a 126-year-old, $300,000 mansion. But to the Federal Communications Commission, Ted Lamb's capitalistic coloration is suspect. For ten weeks it has been investigating charges that...
...morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft. tall, who wore a fur coat, an. orange corset and a plush...
...Richmond found the cloth at the War Assets Administration, bought it with credit from a Boston bank for which his father did legal work. On the resale, he cleared $40,000. He soon expanded into steel and chemicals. By 1948, when he was 24, he had an expanse of plush offices in Manhattan and his business was grossing $11 million a year. Then in the recession of 1949 he was hard hit. His business dropped off sharply, and Exporter Richmond decided to become Financier Richmond...