Word: garished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Gothic lodge built by the second Earl of Littlehampton on the outskirts of town, about 1800, to house the noble lord's friend, the poet Jeremy Tipple. At first a pretty little country house, the building becomes in turn a town house crowded by a garish gin palace and a draper's shop, a mason's workshop, and finally-in the Drayneflete Plan-a pickled historical monument ornamenting a main traffic artery...
Sketched on a Mexican vacation last year, Chapin's bullfight scene was a far cry from his better-known studies of Chicago's garish, soot-covered landmarks and blistering, blustering street scenes. But its brilliant colors and on-the-spot realism were laid on with the same bright and accurate brush that had long since brought him into the front ranks of Mid-Western artists...
Fire. His wife arrived and peered down the hole in fright. He reassured her. But the police sent for a doctor and a priest. Oxygen was piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...
...horse-dung, its characteristic noise motorcycles and its characteristic sight [black-market] money-changers." To view the beauties of this masterpiece among cities, visitors must still, like Poet Robert Browning, nose their way through smelly, dingy streets, searching for some church or belfry embedded and lost in a garish market place...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers had evidence that old man Picabia had a new, if rather trivial, trick. Abandoning his garish pictures of expensive French real estate, he was painting wobbly-ringed dots on thick monochrome backgrounds. With three to 15 dots to a canvas, the pictures had all the monotony and none of the scientific interest of a series of astronomical photographs...