Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried pint-sized Billy Rose: "I'm willing to give them more money. But this demand would put the Diamond Horseshoe out of business." Warned Joe Howard of the big, garish Zanzibar: "Absurd." There was, the owners hinted, only one alternative: firing the poor, beautiful chorus girls. Monte Proser of the Copacabana even went so far as to send his beauties notices of dismissal. Then all sat back and waited for further word from Caesar...
...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
...turned his summer home at Fortin into a hotel, enticed tourists with a gardenia-filled swimming pool, has made the resort almost a tourist must. Ruiz Galindo weekends in Fortin, does business in bathing trunks at the pool's edge. In Mexico City he lives in new, garish Lomas de Chapultepec, the suburb of the newly arrived bourgeois...
There used to be so many burlesque houses on Manhattan's garish 42nd Street that it was virtually one big runway. A decade ago Mayor LaGuardia, who loved to brandish a besom, swept burlesque and all its trimmings right out of New York City; 42nd Street west of Broadway was left with a flea circus and a bereft feeling. Not until The Hat and his pecksniffian License Commissioner Paul Moss left office did there seem any chance to bring the strippers and the privy jokesters back to the boards...
Financially the Post coasted along nicely after Bonfils' death, making a million or two a year, largely for his daughter, Helen Somnes, the principal stockholder. Editorially, it died a slow death, keeping nothing of Bonfils' circus journalism except the garish typography. By last November plodding Publisher William C. Shepherd was aware that he and the paper were both burned out. Said he: "I've been a workhorse long enough. Now I want to loaf." Month ago Ep Hoyt was offered the job of blowing new life into the paper...