Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
Luana. One proverb of show-business says that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show...
Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
Brahm's Quartet in B flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $10)?Brahms in a solemn, pastoral mood treated by the Leners in the lush, romantic fashion characteristic of their gypsy confr?...