What more admirable service could have been performed than that inaugurated in the early months of the war under the Queen's Work for Women Fund, when work was secured for the women in luxury trades which were collapsing under war pressure?

These upper-class families supplied to the capital a class of consumers of luxury goods which attracted craftsmen and businessmen and changed the character of the capital from that of a provincial town to a centre of arts and crafts.

Another issue that was a concern then was the manner in which the event was being used as an excuse by luxury hotels to expand their properties.

It, too, took from them goods of economic value, silk and gold, which went abroad in exchange for luxury articles of little or no economic importance, such as glass, precious stones, or stud horses, which in no way benefited the general population.

The rich woods of the West Indies were put into almost every form and combination which taste could designate or luxury desire.

The luxury husband.

KAUS, GINA. Luxury liner.

No right to be warden with £800 a year; no right to spend in luxury money that was intended for charity.

Luxury againpaper-hangings, French lamps, and French rosesnecessity againMoney on mortgage, and bills discounted: how obvious the connexionthe very cause and effectthe lamps will not burn without oil, and the roses will not bloom without moneyat least they will only waste their fragrance in the desert air of the nursery-ground.

* As pride and luxury decrease, So by degrees they leave the seas.

Kings of the earth shall to thee subject bow And kiss thy feet, and Izdubar shall give Thee wealth, and thou in luxury shalt live.

Under other circumstances than these the liberal professions prove all-devouring: there is a rush for public functions; manual toil is regarded with contempt; luxury increases and becomes necessary; and wealth and power are furiously appropriated by assault in order that one may greedily taste the voluptuousness of enjoyment.

However, I had the authority to go to press with quotes throwing into question the viability of luxury tourism in a land where the season lasts little over four months slightly dampening the gushing tone of the article.

77. 'Sit still, and hear, those whom proud thoughts do swell, Those that look pale by loving coin too well; Whom luxury corrupts.' (Creech).

what a luxury preaching was when I had on Sunday the whole result of an individual, personal week, from which to speak to a people whom all that week I had been meeting as hand-to-hand friend!

Next: the luxury quarterthe establishment of one of those fashionable dressmakers whom you patronise, and whose bills startle all save the most hardened.

And this for luxury-sake, and to provoke an appetite; which I had without stimulation, in my way, and that I can tell thee a very ravenous one.

Money was scarce, luxuries scarcer.

motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels [Coll.], sports car, roadster, gran turismo

18 "The bad man may, his every sense to please, Each soft indulging luxury employ: The plenitude of elegance and ease He may possess; but never can enjoy.

I have no questions to ask; not that I want curiosity after either the ancient or present state of regions in which have been seen all the power and splendour of wide-extended empire; and which, as by some grant of natural superiority, supply the rest of the world with almost all that pride desires and luxury enjoys.

30 Were they denied their proper tools, How could they lead their knaves and fools? Were this the case, let's take a view, What dreadful mischiefs would ensue; Though it might aggrandise the state, Could private luxury dine on plate?