Word: plush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, MacPhail hired him as "special assistant" and it looked as if Bucky at last could put his feet on a desk in the Yankees' plush, Fifth Avenue offices and relax. Then he got the manager...
While other planemakers raced to produce cheaper planes for a wider market, soft-spoken Leroy Grumman galloped off in the other direction. This week his Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. announced its postwar commercial model, the Mallard, an eight-to-ten-passenger amphibian with lush-plush custom-tailored interior. Price: $100,000 & up (depending on the interior arrangement selected...
HOTEL BEMELMANS (380 pp.)-Ludwig Bemelmans-Viking ($3). Most of the best of Bemelmans: 36 deft, witty stories of backstairs life in a plush Manhattan hotel, from earlier Bemelmans books (including all the stories in Hotel Splendide and Life Class), with three new stories added; lavishly decorated with the author's own chichi illustrations...
...former ballroom of Bad Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
...Plush chairs caused trouble in Paris too. The reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...