Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB's messy affairs one damaging fact after another. Infinitely painstaking, Mr. Toland in ten weeks' hearings wove a garish tapestry of the evidence, showed Board bias, incompetence, extra-legal activities...
Driving out of Shanghai's International Settlement to the westward, one notices the broad, quiet residential streets suddenly give way to a crowded, garish area, bright with neon signs and highly colored billboards, a section in which there is many a long, luring arcade leading to gambling halls, opium dens, places of "special" entertainment. This is Shanghai's notorious Badlands, most vicious hell-spot in the East...
Last week, back in his garish world of grab-grunt-&-grimace, M. Tillet wrestled in Washington against one Alan Eustace. Five hundred would-be spectators were turned away from the small arena and, as usual, the Angel won, in 10½ minutes...