Word: garish
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Sensationalism and garish appeals to the hyphenate have been tolerated too long in our newspapers. Weeds will not die as long as they are nourished; all attempts at assimilating our foreign population will be in vain until the roots of hyphenism are loosened from the daily press...
...Mars keep his exclusiveness. Let him keep his frozen colds. Let him keep his red grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...
...lights in Sanders Theatre are, if possible, even worse. The stage has garish gas-lamps, which blind the eyes of those who wish to see as well as hear. Around the balcony are no less blinding electric bulbs, which produce an effect like many darting tongues of, flame; and higher up are dangerous open gas-jets. Either one's devotion to music or his eyesight must be strong to bring him to Sanders at present for this ocular punishment. Indeed, it is doubtful whether a system combining in a worse way worse methods of lighting could be devised...
...live in a well-meaning but miscalculating community, which insults our dearest sentiments--a community which already has sent the shades of ancient horsecars and the good old days to perdition with garish, glaring lights; a community which demands in the Harvard Square station, of all demands that might have been made, an escalator. Think of rising from a Daedalian subterranean labyrinth through the jaws of Hadrian's tomb into the doors of College House--by an escalator. It is an insult to antiquity...
...this is not a fair question; perhaps, however, Mr. Johnson speaks the truth. Recalling Mr. Stover's psychology on various occasions, we are inclined to lift an eyebrow and doubt if Mr. Johnson sees below the surface, and to chide him for using too broad a brush and too garish colors. His trouble may not be undergraduate ignorance, but ignorance of the undergraduate...