Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Crack (Warner). A fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because...
Heartbreaking and poignant, no less. The glittering society miss pays dearly for her glitter. And the very inevitability of it all, the irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that...
...Philadelphia last week. The younger ones were slender. All had big hips and small chests, long legs, short arms, slim hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...
Marion Talley wants to milk the cows, so she is leaving the brilliant glitter of the Diamond Horse shoe-forever. According to her story, Miss Talley was suddenly inspired to snub a new contract from the Metropolitan. She is a fatalist and destiny calls her to the soil where she once spent three months of her childhood...
They go clanking across the bar of the gambling table and drag at the tourist's pocket. One silver dollar purchases two cocktails; two whiskies; two tots of rum. Beer is 10 or 15 cents per glass, depending on the glitter of the dispensary...