Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unique in the annals of Ina Claire. Born at Washington, D. C. in 1892 and named Ina Fagan, she had become by 1915 a distinguished performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. Ten years later, she was the first comedienne of the Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look a little foolish...
...Free Soul but it shows no sign of waning. As talking pictures emerged from the stage of experiment, she became the embodiment of the new mood in cinema drama to which they seemed best adapted -a mood which can be loosely described as Sophistication. That the cool glitter of an intelligence, added to patrician beauty, should have won her such immense and protracted popularity has suggested a fact which Hollywood might not otherwise have discovered: that if the talkies have not created a new cinema public, they have changed the old one beyond recognition...
...large Latin population. Edmond Romulus Amateis and Kimon Nicolaides are friends, unofficial assistants of Director Lothrop. And though the roster contains such Nor dic names as Gerald Foster, Erna Lange, David McCosh, there is preponderance of others like Romano, Vincenzo D'Agostino, G. Prestopino to give a Florentine glitter to the art guild of Oyster...
...automobile may be sold because the buyer's wife likes the color of the paint, the feel of the upholstery, the glitter of the nickel-plated gadgets; but more probably because the demonstrator can say to the buyer, "Now, just slide over here and take the wheel yourself...
...wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather. ... He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, in the front of great battles and in a hundred little cavalry fights which killed men just as dead as Gettysburg...