Word: glittering
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...inscribed "I like Ike"; memos about coffee hours for Eisenhower; recipes for beef-stew suppers for Eisenhower. Grinning as he entered the Hotel Statler's Congressional Room, where the National Citizens for Eisenhower executive campaign conference was encamped, the subject of this unquenchable admiration was struck less by glitter and gewgaws than by the sudden impact of an anniversary...
...almost like the good old days again, when everybody but the poor was rich, when King George V sat respectably on his throne, and his dashing son the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor) toppled off horses from Aldershot to Dockenfield. Mayfair was afire with the glitter of bright lights, seductive scents hung heavy on the air, and the stillness of spring nights was shattered by the popping of champagne corks. Despite repeated government warnings to tighten all belts, London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class...
Berlin, city of rubble, refugees, and occasional patches of glitter, is an Alfred Hitchcock dream of subterfuge and suspicion. In back streets, darkly mysterious houses lurk behind high wire fences suggestive of darker and more mysterious doings within. Newsmen recently counted 27 separate agencies of Western intelligence known to be at work in Berlin. Their operatives-some fashionably clothed in the grey flannel of New York's Madison Avenue, some with armpit holsters bulging under blue serge-report to different headquarters, and rarely know what their colleagues...
...through to a film director (clearly modeled on Vittorio De Sica) who screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that the old countess looks up from her deathbed to ask, rather like a child at party's end:"What? Is life over already?" Via Veneto Glitter. Amid the eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed...
...Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than just a partner. He was my whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it-wash my hands...