Word: glitteringly
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...food was passing fair. The prince's snob appeal was pure, being unfettered by real connections. And Romanoff's became one of the best-known restaurants anywhere. The shadow prince became just another honest Boniface. A businessman. A tradesman. A merchant. A non-fraud! Even the glitter of the real tinsel had worn...
...week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...
Quarter a Throw. There were some white ties, of course, and a few top hats, such as that on New Jersey's horsy sportsman, Amory L. Haskell. There was some glitter of jewels, such as the diamond-decorated egg-sized emeralds on tiny Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel Newhouse (see PRESS). There were a few chic and social standouts, such as golden-haired Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, who rode in a working hunter class in the afternoon, then appeared for the evening opening in a simple black sheath topped by a shocking-pink jacket. There was a scattering...
...contract, one has know attractive and promising men who end college with scarcely a splash and certainly without glitter after three years when a fourth year might have allowed them to share the triumphs and excitements of their friends. Such men may keep greener memories of school than of college and, to the degree that they have failed to make something positive of college, have been habituated to gray expectations...
Chronicles of society always run the same risk. To be successful they must contain a wealth of imaginative surface detail; otherwise the fundamental emptiness of high society--its weary monotony and mindless glitter--loom oppressively. Nilsson fails to achieve any sort of dash or verve; he also cheats us by pretending to human insights where there are none...