Word: garish
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...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...
Suddenly-the time is approximately 8:14-the whole valley is filled by a garish light, and I am conscious of a wave of heat. As I make for the door, I hear a moderately loud explosion; at the same time, the window breaks in with a loud crash. I am sprayed by fragments of glass. The entire window frame has been forced into the room. I realize now that a bomb has burst and I am under the impression that it exploded directly over our house. I am bleeding from cuts about the hands and head...
Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...