Word: luster
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Sidney Howard; produced by John Golden), when it won the Pulitzer Prize in the mid-'20s, had a fresh slant and a fine cast (Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord and Glenn Anders). Revived without luster in 1939, it seemed sadly dated. Dumped down on Broadway last week, it seemed all but dead...
...election was a personal victory almost without historical parallel; a victory of the fighting spirit. Whatever their politics, the nation's common people found in his election a great emotional satisfaction. He had humbled the confident, discomfited the savants and the pollsters, and given a new luster to the old-fashioned virtues of work and dogged courage. The year 1948 was Harry Truman's year...
...back to the gold rings--after a few minutes, they got dull. We polished them for half-an-hour, and they regained their shiny luster, but the one thing the customs officer didn't question me about in New York was my declaration of one brass ring, value two dollars...
...repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history has not yet detracted from his luster...
...nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...