Word: luster
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...Czardas" number, whirled him nearly off his feet, crying, "Here-a Hungarian goes like this!" Another time, a dancer wound up in front of her. "Behind me! Behind me!'' she cried. "Never get in front of anybody on the stage!" Nobody really cared that the luster was gone from her voice. "Naturally, she's not going to sing the way she did a generation back," a musician said. "Nobody expects her to. But also don't forget that she's a genuine, 24-carat prima donna of the old school...
...first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto's Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese's The Annunciation, Tintoretto's magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation's best...
Among the victims of the Browns this year, in exhibition and regular-season games, have been such longtime N.F.L. powerhouses as the Chicago Bears (27-23) and the champion Philadelphia Eagles (35-10). This week, though it added no special luster to their record, the Browns scalped aging (35) Sammy Baugh and his down-at-heel Washington Redskins...
...unfortunate that Louis could not have remained retired; that would have been far more fitting. But Louis does not lose a great deal of luster by his defeat, for posterity will remember him as the patient, deadly stalker. There will be heavyweight boxing champions for decades to come, a fact which will become easier to accept as the years pass. Right now it is not so easy...
...redeem his son's honor, and Margaret Leighton matches it as the daughter who loses her stuffy fiance when the case plunges the family into notoriety. Neil North ably fills the title role. With the help of British dependables in lesser parts, the stars give the film a luster that shines only fleetingly in the script...