Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets much of its surface glitter and look of reality from exciting camera work and lively invention. For its emotional drive, it relies almost entirely on the quiet, slowly accumulating honesty of Ryan's performance...
...expensive section of the Bellboy dining hall will take on all the glitter of the diamond horseshoe for the performance of Handel's "Acis and Galatea." James Perrin '50 and Marguerite Willauer of the New England Conservatory of Music will sing the title roles of John Gay's libretto. Paul Tibbets '45, who has been something of a fixture in musical circles here since the pre-war era himself, will be Polyphemus while June Donald of the Longy School will sing Dalmon...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...
...downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...growth-every new wharf, every skirmish, every treaty. One night last week, Lloyd's, like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There is no doubt that last night's party was the most generous since...