Word: plush
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little of everything. In the early hours of Thursday morning radio bulletins began shrilling news of a conspiracy to murder Perón. The assassination, broadcasters cried, was to have occurred on the "Day of the Race," Oct. 12, at an opera gala in the gilt-and-plush Teatro Colón. His wife, blonde Eva Duarte Perón, was to have been killed with...
...body from the ornate, white-columned hall of Dom Soyuzov (House of Unions), where it lay in state, to Red Square, two blocks away, walked a group carrying a giant portrait of the dead man. Next came nine generals, one admiral, three civilians, each carrying on a red plush pillow one of Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green in the glittering sunlight. Beside the caisson walked Stalin, with Molotov...
That evening the delegates assembled for their first regular meeting in the Concertgebouw, where they soon found that the Dutch signs Let op - Nat meant "wet paint." The actual sessions had no linguistic shocks; the delegates sat comfortably in red plush chairs and tinkered with the knobs of a simultaneous translation system which brought them the proceedings in English, French or German...
...read for literary value, this book soon resembles a Coney Island museum of horrors, in which are displayed the works of such literary curiosities as Vicki Baum and Warwick Deeping, such terrible stuff as Michael Arlen's green-plush patter about the smarter set and Vina Delmar's teary tribute to the "bad girl...
Behind Bidault's insistence stood the fear that, should he fail to get approval from the Assembly, France might be left perilously alone; in the half-light of the gilt and plush Chamber of Deputies lurked the specters of a resurgent Germany, of France's own military impotence. As they listened to the debate, deputies also thought of the 60 Red Army divisions facing westward, of Washington and London, who want to rebuild a Western German state; of millions of other little Europeans who fear that this major step towards European reconstruction may plunge them instead into...