Word: lustered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must sometimes surpass their material. They have only partial success: contralto Giulia Simionato is fine, but basso Cesare Siepi is a disappointment. The best performance comes from baritone Bastianini, making his debut on records. His voice is rich and big, and handled very sympathetically. He contributes the only consistent luster to an otherwise spotty recording...
...whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...
...watching and waiting and predicting the day the retread wears thin and blows out. Their campaign strategy is based on the hope that Democratic leaders next spring will come to believe that they have on their hands a tired figure that has lost as much of the old luster and appeal as Wendell Willkie had lost by 1944. An important Harriman supporter says of the 1952 nominee: "He hasn't made a good speech since early...
...district, where no Tory candidate had come close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate's name drew the votes; the Liberal nominee was Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 43, second son of Canada's Quebec-born Prime Minister...
Last week, when The Chocolate Soldier went on the air, Designer du Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...