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...Army. (The Senate has already passed a bill creating such a rank for the Navy.) The Army, like the Navy, thought it was time. U.S. generals are diffident about it, but they would like to break through the traditional ceiling of four stars-not for the extra glitter but for practical reasons...
Charwomen and Queens. Peer Gynt's social glitter was in sharp contrast to the audiences the Old Vic had been used to -the long-haired, sandaled Bohemians, the cockneys, charwomen and ancients in Inverness capes who sat raptly on hard wooden benches and glared at anyone who even shuffled his feet. But in far-off days the old theater had known glitter...
...Grey Bird. In Washington, Sergio Osmeña, the shrewd, quiet, Chinese mestizo, became President of the Philippines. For almost a half century Osmeña, like Quezon, had dreamed of power. But the impressionable Filipinos, fascinated by Quezon's impassioned oratory, his imperious political scheming, the glitter of his presence, thought of Sergio Osmeña as a grey bird flying beside a brightly plumaged jungle cock. Osmeña accepted his defeats quietly, finally became Manuel Quezon's political friend, came with him to the U.S. as confidant and Vice President after the fall...
...them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas, they blossomed ornately in prewar Paris, where their salons were famous for social glitter...
Fear's Pale Face. Under the glitter of the resurgent city, hunger, death and the pale face of fear haunted many & many a Roman...