Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With $5,000 he had saved, he formed the North American Pharmacal Co. (drug products) in Chicago. Three years later he prospected a new field: the small-town drugstore. He dazzled the outlanders of Sterling, Ill. with a garish, big-city drugstore, complete with huge drug and cosmetic departments, a well-stocked food section. It was such a hit that he moved into five other towns, now has a chain of 54 stores in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota...
...likable comedy; William Gaxton's performance, as Dr. Haymes's worried father, is a fine, quiet piece of backstage sentimentalism. The big production numbers (hung mainly on the idea that Gaxton, as Ze Chef, marshalls forth young women dressed to represent condiments and fancy desserts) are heavy, garish, good-humored and preposterous...
...gave to show business a drive and mettlesomeness (as both producer and director) that acted like ozone, even if at times they were only shots of dope. In addition to being good shows, Broadway and The Front Page set a trend in colorful, hard-hitting entertainment; they caught the garish, profane, melodramatic spirit...
...furniture design fell on its ugliest days. Had the United States Hotel been furnished 20 years sooner it would have caught the end of the gracious early-Victorian style-and its contents would have brought untold sums last week. As it was, few collectors and decorators wanted the garish brocades and machine-carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself...
...there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged to the Germans...