Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian motif dominates the 22 buildings of Indiana limestone and white-washed brick. In the blue of a long pond glitter the glass & aluminum of two bird houses and a reptile house. A bug house, first in the U. S., is half completed. It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates...
...vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when he gets a chance to conduct the opera company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British for UFA production, strives, like most of Director Erich Pommer's productions...
...bright and shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...
...function formally as First Lady, at the opening of Washington's social season. U. S. women of all ranks and ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...
...Great Britain, rather than the United States, should utter the first concerted prayer against a journalism which is, in the words of last week's British Press Convention, "little more than a monstrous invasion of individual privacy." That journalism is sufficiently isolated in Great Britain to make its proboscis glitter; in the republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent...