Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME may be said to have "flunked" in nearly every famed language, ancient or modern. Also, it has, on occasion, used nearly every famed language with great eclat. Therefore, far from omitting for eign words, TIME will persist toward perfection...
After the War, Augustus John was an artist of great personal as well as esthetic eclat. He was elected to the Royal Academy whereupon he increased his reputation for daring independence by sending a picture to the Academy Exhibition which he followed up with this remark: "I never asked them to admit me. I never sent them a picture until after they elected...
...glamor of the "enternal' city" cannot be impaired by its association with dictators or the rabble of an illiterate populace. If possible, these rather enhance its fanciful and fashionable eclat by emphasizing the vicissitudes of its fortunes. Rome's most up-to-date advertising is still...
...game if they do not enjoy it, and these need not be repeated. He points out that the undergraduate has "a feeling of duty" to his college; does not want to be a "quitter"; that if he has football ability, he is practically commandeered; the fascination of the eclat and glory of being on a college team; the excitement of being in the public eye; and the tremendous publicity and public interest in the game which induces excitement. In the Boston Herald of Saturday morning. November 7, I counted eighteen columns given to football; and this before a single game...
...police band, moving pictures shown against a screen hung on the outside of the old church, and within the old building a continuous vaudeville show, including a donkey educated to pick numbers out of a hat, hot-dog and pop stands, while plenty of red lemonade added to the eclat of the occasion. The event took place in New York city, where the new four million dollar Broadway temple, under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Reisner is, according to the advertisements, to "put God on Broadway...