Word: glossed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stunning sonorities with an instrument bred to less exotic climes. With the sound sometimes brittle and percussive, sometimes cobwebby soft, Harpist Hellman and her helpers (bass, guitar and drums) swing with sinuous brilliance through Summertime, Swingin' Shepherd Blues, Down the Road a Piece, giving each a fine crystalline gloss...
This expropriation has produced the "twin horrors of capitalistic war," Meyerson claimed. Representing the Debate Council, Marc E. Leland '59 and Edward C. Pinkus '59 opposed the resolution, supported by Meyerson and George J. Gloss, "Resolved: That Socialism is the cure for our ills...
...Capitalism has brought poverty, crisis, war, and misery for humanity," Gloss declared, "while socialism will end the wars." Socialism will liberate the enslaved masses, Meyerson added, through "absence of state, absence of government, and absence of money...
...pratfalls, it was still Hollywood, pure Hollywood, more enduring than brass. Onto U.S. TV screens flashed a high-style gloss of lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some...
Jean Gannett Williams' legacy was loaded with liabilities-but not of the financial sort. Her credentials were meager: one year's apprenticeship, one press junket through Europe. Buffed to a high private-school gloss at Masters School and Bradford Junior College, she seemed miscast in a man's world of deadlines and hot lead. Jean became president, but Gannett papers were really managed by two survivors of her father's rule: General Manager Laurence H. Stubbs and Publisher Roger Chilton Williams, son of the late novelist Ben Ames Williams-and Jean Gannett Williams' ex-husband...