Word: garishness
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Aggie has been a worker in city rooms for 21 years, first on the old Los Angeles Record, and for the past 15 years on the Herald & Express. A shrewd, agile reporter, she specialized in crime coverage. Her work was hard, tough and garish. She hated to be called a sob sister and frequently beat male reporters on their own ground ("I don't want any advantages be cause of my sex"). To preserve a news beat for her own paper, she once hid a suspected murderess in her home for several hours while her daughter entertained a party...
...device called the "Spectro-Chrome" that constantly changes its garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...
...Tribune survived its first days, as a militant "workingman's weekly," by changing its garish typography for quieter dress, increasing its literary and art criticism, tripling its price and courting the "out-at-elbow middle class." The phrase came from its prize, unpredictable Critic-Columnist George Orwell...
Perhaps the melodrama muscles into the new Street Scene a bit too conspicuously; there is, at any rate, a good deal less of the old garish street life, the huddled, gabby tenement humanity. But, endangered by a lot of song-&-dance distractions, the story builds much more strongly by leaning on plot rather than people. And it finds time for enough that is human and humorous. Composer Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) scores with all his lighter songs and with some of his romantic ones. And there are good people to sing them-notably, opera singer Polyna Stoska...
Woman of the Year. Though 1946 was unquiet with the drums of war behind and the danger of war ahead, a deeply happy thread ran through its garish pattern; it was a year of homecoming and, therefore, a woman's year. To loyalties older than flags jealous governments had released some 60 million men. (The Americans chafed noisily at demobilization delays, and returned horrified by the scarcity of water closets and breakfast foods beyond the oceans; the Russians returned discontented at the remembrance of fine houses, fabulous watches, and women with soft hands across the Oder, the Danube...