Word: lustered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshal of France is a fine old title that goes back to 1185. In recent years it was tarnished by Pétain, but given new luster by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, who got it posthumously. Last week the Republic picked two more: the late Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque (killed in a 1947 plane crash) and Alphonse Juin...
...conventional Western gimmicks--Indians, saloons, chases, coincidence, two men and one girl, and some historical background--Lone Star survives the ordeal very well. Because its set in Austin, Texas, in the stormy months prior to Tyler's 1844 annexation of Texas, the stock Western plot receives some borrowed luster...
...five years of service as a fire dog, a black & white Dalmatian named Whiskers lent Hook & Ladder Company No. 10f Newark a flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
...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...