palmy

Our palmy years began way before Hollywood and the enormous hillside onetime real estate sign of that name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

Onstein added that the scientists also learned that spines and other plant defense structures had probably existed in the palmy vegetation prior to the extinction event.

From Salon ● May 3, 2022

"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 12, 2017

Then there is a particular subculture of largely wealthy and well-educated families, many living in palmy enclaves around Los Angeles and San Francisco, who are trying to carve out “all-natural” lives for their children.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2015

She was a particularly fine actress, and in London opera her association with such singers as Lablache, Rubini, Tamburini and Mario was long remembered as the palmy days of Italian opera.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

Farine Bakery & Cafe expands with a second Eastside location near Overlake Medical Center, serving tartines and baguette sandwiches from breads made in house along with croissants, palmier and brioche.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Buttery, shatteringly crunchy and sugary, it tasted like a croissant and a palmier had teamed up to create a pastry fit for the gods.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022

With the bill comes a house-made marshmallow or petite palmier.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2016

They prided themselves on doing nothing, and subsisted on the sale of trinkets, jewelry, and books, which they had acquired in palmier days.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

In the days to come there would be the annual Christmas gathering of the Kennedy clan, with grandchildren galore, heaps of presents, and the palmiest weather that Florida could offer.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all Washington's palmiest days of buck-passing, no such buck-passing had been seen as came now: steel was short, labor shirked, management mismanaged, Washington had failed to plan well.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the mid-1970s, aided by handouts from the oil-rich gulf states, Syria enjoyed its palmiest years ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a guide to voters, France-Soir published a glossary of political terms that made the French campaign sound much like one in Boston's Ward 17 during Mayor James M. Curley's palmiest days.

From Time Magazine Archive

The war-cry was not a success, but the meal that followed savoured of the palmiest days of Bungem's.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins