Word: garishes
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...crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing of sacred functions, no exuberant decking of shrines with garish artificial flowers. Said Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani: "The present use of candles can easily take on the appearance of superstition. One mass well heard, one communion well received, will obtain more heavenly grace than thousands of candles lighted every...
...cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish sunlight of Empire...
...name (Charlotte Fixel) or the name she had chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious affluence, a dumpy disappointed warning to women...
...outline of the story is garish. It begins when a glum socialite (Clive Brook), consoling himself with liquor for his wife's infidelities, conceives an alliance with a cabaret singer (Miriam Hopkins). The cabaret singer has bad associations. When she sings the blues, she means them. Her husband is a thief. One night the socialite goes home to her apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates...
...speculates with the dead nephew's money, makes a tidy fortune. He can get his scrawny, pitiful wife new clothes. He can school his daughter in Paris. He can buy garish new furniture for his wretched flat. But he can never leave the place. He is shackled to the dread secret that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful...