Word: luster
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...saleable personality. He never even wrote the kind of novels in which some character would turn up again and aeain and enable the reader to say, "There he goes," as in the case of a Lieut. Henry, a Jake Barnes or a Robert Jordan, who shed a romantic backward luster on the author...
...really tough go-goer hangs around the Olds-mobile 442, which squats near the main entrance. If the girl doesn't catch your eye, the color of the car will. "Lemon-lime luster" is very much like citric acid to the eye. It smarts. It glares. It offends. It's guaranteed to prevent scurvy on sight. The girl's nice, however. Her lines almost mitigate the lines she sings; like "442 -- the Groovy-go machine that will tickle your taste buds for action!" "And inside," she promised, "there are goodies galore." G-g-golly...
...would claim that the 89th's finest hours came in 1966. After a historic first session that passed 105 important bills, the Congress generally thumb-twiddled its way through its second session, only to burst into a fevered eleventh-hour blur of action that added little to its luster...
America's other Tchaikovsky prizewinners-Sopranos Jane Marsh, 24, and Veronica Tyler, 29, and Bass Simon Estes, 28-had already made impressive postcontest showings with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood last month. Now Kates and Dichter as well have added luster to their own bright promise...
Cowboy King. To Western lovers whose text is the TV screen and the local movie house, the news that Buffalo Bill collected art may sound downright subversive. In fact, it was darned shrewd. Many of the paintings featured old Bill himself, adding luster to his legend. But as a chief scout for the U.S. cavalry and later King of the Cowboys in his own Wild West show, he had a genuine interest in preserving an image of the West that he had known...