Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dramatics at Harvard in recent years have been often characterized by an ambitious tinge of the extravaganza. A purely creative side of the theatre has perhaps been overlooked as the undergraduates brought to Cambridge work from afar in which the emphasis was decidedly on the appeal and glitter of exotic pageantry. The Dramatic Club apparently chose to focus its attention on a finished performance with all the attendant splendor of a circus parade, rather than spend the greater part of its efforts on original experimentation. The entertainment offered has been its own reward. The Club's last few performances without...
...there were 30 in New York, 11 in Chicago, 8 in San Francisco. Home of Bank of Italy, central bank of the Giannini system. San Francisco shrugs its shoulders at cinema and citrus, argues that from the standpoint of stable commerce, of sound finance, of industrial prosperity, that the glitter of the Golden Gate is still undimmed...
...there be light," says the light company; and wiry candles glitter in all the cities of the world, bulbs of light blossom in the street, lights are in the houses, there is gaiety behind bright windows and darkness, enormous, hungry and patient, is compelled to crouch under the ocean or in the corners of closets. All this is expensive and Lawrence F. Jones, a radio dealer, decided that the Brooklyn Edison Co. had charged him too much for lighting his shop. Accordingly, he refused to pay their bill...
...queen is made out more pure than she was, the king more kind, and the cardinal more fool, Author Barrington has nevertheless caught glitter and tragedy in her engrossing tale of the ominous days before the French Revolution...
...night long Harvard Square leaps in over his windowsill. The lights glitter, gleam and tirelessly climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...