Word: flashier
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...provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight (TIME...
Columbia, 3 sides) is flashier and brasher but not as satisfying as Jesus Maria Sanroma's with the Boston "Pops" Orchestra (Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor, 3 sides...
...splendid city of Buenos Aires was thriving, cocky, getting richer by the minute. Busy factories billowed thick, black smoke. The Calle Florida, flashier than ever, glittered with the smart new shops of refugees. Pin-striped upper-crusters gathered at 8 p.m. in the Plaza Bar, sipped the abundant Scotch, ribbed the preposterous military Government and told with detailed animation whom they slept with the night before...
...them all is the very great Chiang Kaishek. There may be flashier boys -but none with the Generalissimo's profound serenity and fortitude...