Word: garishness
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Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write...
...auction sale of paintings no longer deemed worthy of wall space. Last week the euphemistically-termed "surplus" art was sold. The highest price was $3,500, paid by Circusman John Ringling for Hans Makart's Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...
...with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation of the Great Powers to sit on the Second Dawes Plan Committee (TIME...
...arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear in hired or stolen tuxedoes, cruising and boozing in a fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with a wench, buxom Gretchen Schmaltz. Originally Fraulein Schmaltz appeared to have favored and sipped beer with a tuxedoed Ever Loyal. When...
...sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone, industrious, charitable, but merry withal. Nothing could be more respectable than Gladstone's cadenced marriage-proposal in the moonlit Colosseum; nothing more indecorous than Dizzy's pursuit of newly widowed, wealthy Mary Anne. But Mary Anne met gossip with gossip: "Dizzy married me for my money, but if he had the chance again he would marry me for love"; and lavished on him the affection a straight-laced Christian age had grudged the fantastic...