Word: garishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well-beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...
Unless you were told, you would certainly never think Heinrich Mann was brother to Nobel Prize-winner Thomas. Their books are poles apart. Thomas's are quiet, philosophical, analytic; Heinrich's loud, nightmarish, operatic. The Little Town is like a garish and improbable opera played at top speed, with singers, chorus and brassy orchestra all blaring at once for dear life. The effect is sometimes uproarious, sometimes deafening, occasionally sinister...
...terrific world weariness for a youth of 25. This impression is rapidly broken down by the exultant whoops with which he greets his friends and acquaintances in theatre lobbies and other public places. Broadwayfarers were still repeating last week a typical Beaton bonmot applied month ago to a famed, garish nightclub personality : "My dear, how too, too vomitous!" In his suite at the Ritz last week orchidaceous Mr. Beaton received reporters anxious to learn a few facts about a young man who has in the past three years sketched or photographed most of the famed beauties of Britain...
...there were many trips to be made-guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at the games, was a mingling of many worlds, the great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world, with a touch of court and politics. Andrew Mellon and Harold S. Vanderbilt, British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, the Stokes, Astors, Burdens, Hitchcocks and Long Islanders, with...