Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians in the boats below the window create a romantic effect. They say that Moses was hidden in the bulrushes here...
...electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway's lights probably will not glitter brightly again until the war is over. "Dim-outs" will be the nightly rule, so that no sky-glow can limn ships at sea, betraying them to U-boats...
Even before Pearl Harbor, glitter was fast vanishing from 10?-store counters as stocks of imitation pearls, rhinestones and cut glass, imported mainly from Czecho-Slovakia, ran low. Today the only practicable metal the $50,000,000 costume jewelry industry can get is costly sterling silver. Even sterling is in danger: it contains 7.5% copper...
Chopin: Fifteen Waltzes (Alexander Brailowsky, pianist; Victor; 14 sides). Russian-born Brailowsky, who has given marathon performances of every note of Chopin's 169 pieces, plays these nervous, undanceable dances with great dash and glitter...
When San Francisco had fallen, General Lea pictured a U.S. utterly helpless on the inner side of the coastal range. It is a picture which would make, and doubtless has made, Admiral Yamamoto's eyes glitter with anticipation: "Not months, but years, must elapse before armies equal to the Japanese are able to pass in parade. These must then make their way over deserts such as no armies have ever heretofore crossed; scale the intrenched and stupendous heights that form the redoubts of the desert moats; attempting, in the valor of their ignorance, the militarily impossible; turning mountain gorges...