Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young shipping clerk or a ?5-a-week railroad carter like her father. One glamorous day, when Cinemactor Ray Milland came to London, 16-year-old Katherine wangled an interview with him and Ray promised to get her a screen test. Katherine told all her friends, and the garish News of the World sent a photographer around to take her picture...
...portraits of her husband, Argentina's President Juan Perón, were placed strategically on the walls; new Louis XV furniture was installed in her bedroom. A new floor of shining tile was laid for the main entrance, doors were painted garish green, marble stairs were shined mirror-bright. No one could blame Embassy officials when their bright new decorations became the background for the first jeers that Evita had heard since her European tour began June...
Aggie has been a worker in city rooms for 21 years, first on the old Los Angeles Record, and for the past 15 years on the Herald & Express. A shrewd, agile reporter, she specialized in crime coverage. Her work was hard, tough and garish. She hated to be called a sob sister and frequently beat male reporters on their own ground ("I don't want any advantages be cause of my sex"). To preserve a news beat for her own paper, she once hid a suspected murderess in her home for several hours while her daughter entertained a party...
...device called the "Spectro-Chrome" that constantly changes its garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...
...Tribune survived its first days, as a militant "workingman's weekly," by changing its garish typography for quieter dress, increasing its literary and art criticism, tripling its price and courting the "out-at-elbow middle class." The phrase came from its prize, unpredictable Critic-Columnist George Orwell...