Word: luster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the cast lacks both distinction and singing ability. The one and only high point of the evening is the remarkable performance turned in by James Lawlor at the piano, and the only one who lived up to expectation was Lee Nugent, who turned in her usual lack-luster performance...
...peacetime fear of layoffs, tarnishing the luster of high U.S. wage rates, has already begun to haunt thoughtful war workers looking ahead to war's end. But when C.I.O. United Steelworkers launched their attack on the Little Steel formula, their demand for a guaranteed annual wage was generally regarded as a mere bargaining point to be dropped when the going got rough. By last week, however, this anemic talking point had grown into a full-blooded issue. In a flurry of lusty Washington argument it had spread far beyond steel, threatened to involve most of U.S. industry...
...Nights in a Dinner Coat," sold at auction his influential collection of modern, mostly French art. The 1019 items offered at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries put a total of $181,747 into "Crownie's" elegantly tailored pocket and the event itself had the quality of social luster, with a note of high gaga, which he dearly loves...
Both are very close friends of Harry Hopkins, who exhibited them in Washington as New Deal-tamed capitalists, thus giving some luster to the bumbling Business Advisory Council-to counteract the steady attacks from most businessmen on the Roosevelt policies. Both are personally attractive, able administrators. Neither has a record of great creative achievement nor a reputation as a man of ideas. Ed Stettinius' record, indeed, in the early defense-production days, was so badly spotted that he was kicked upstairs to the check-signing job as Lend-Lease Administrator, (TIME, March 10, 1941, et seq.). Behind...
...years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...