Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Line steamers were one of the last relics of a garish, opulent, but less hurried day. Once, 100 river steamers had competed for the river trade. The gingerbread grandeur of their interiors gave the passengers the elegant impression of a transatlantic voyage with none of its discomforts. Cotillions were held on their decks; financiers and gamblers masquerading as financiers thronged their saloons...
Back Door. Loewy, whose first soap wrapper design was for Lehn & Fink Products Corp., came into the Unilever empire through the back door. In 1938, up & coming young Charles Luckman hired him to redesign the package for Pepsodent toothpaste. Most toothpaste packages then screamed for attention with garish red containers and bold black print. Loewy persuaded Pepsodent to give its package an aseptic white exterior, with modest script lettering, which would make it look nice on a cosmetics counter. Up went Pepsodent's sales by 17%. When Pepsodent and Luckman moved into Unilever's huge U.S. branch, Lever...
...Fleet Street standards, London's respected independent Sunday Observer (circ. 384,000) is not a very big paper, but it is accounted a very good one. It has only a twentieth the circulation of the garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean...
...Operators of Manhattan's garish and financially hard-pressed Monte Carlo nightclub decided to close up after employees went out on strike for higher wages. But to show they had no hard feelings they threw a big farewell party; before the night was over, the headwaiter danced spryly with the hatcheck girl...
...proved as pleasing as ever. Magritte, a surrealist with a sense of humor, cares little for the Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...