Word: garishness
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...idea that 1) big cities are lonely places, and 2) the lonely men & women would .get together and dance if they did not have to patronize Chicago's scabrous dance halls. So the Karzas brothers decided to build them a dream palace, the $1,500,000 Trianon, a garish replica of the palace at Versailles. It opened in 1922 with the biggest charity ball Chicago has ever known...
...faces, happy children in smocks, trim gardens, bright cottages with cream walls and strawberry roofs. Overhead hovered menacingly a black, evil-eyed eagle. The bird was labeled "Trusts"; the Red politicos claimed that any resemblance to the American eagle was purely coincidental. Last week, after scrutinizing a row of garish, importunate posters of several parties at the Porte de St. Cloud, a man in a flimsy raincoat spat eloquently, "Ça me dégoûte" (That burns me up), he said...
...Capitol Hill the echoless chambers of Congress slumbered in the hush of recess. But in the garish ballroom of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt last week a rump session of 34 disgruntled Senators and Representatives chorused a rebel yell...
Cried pint-sized Billy Rose: "I'm willing to give them more money. But this demand would put the Diamond Horseshoe out of business." Warned Joe Howard of the big, garish Zanzibar: "Absurd." There was, the owners hinted, only one alternative: firing the poor, beautiful chorus girls. Monte Proser of the Copacabana even went so far as to send his beauties notices of dismissal. Then all sat back and waited for further word from Caesar...
...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...