palmy
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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
Strachey’s despair sharply contradicts the palmy official reports he and other officials were sending to London about British military superiority.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2010
In those days, when Peter Jones found the enjoyment of one play sufficient to last him a twelvemonth, the Philadelphia theatre was in its "high and palmy state."
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
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
The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
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
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 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
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
While “Vastness” and “Crossing the Bar” repeat the lyrical triumphs of his palmiest days.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
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