Word: lustrous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff, lustrous hostess coat from natural gas, coal oil, salt...
From Mexico came minor pictures by the masters, including Jean Chariot, and from Argentina and Chile a number of works lustrous with contemporaneity. Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic were represented by curiosities rather than quality, but the whole show was a sidelong stride toward the "intellectual interchange" agreed upon at the Lima Conference...
Only swank night spot with anything like a full-sized show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...
...that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that he repeats himself too much: he is unfortunately limited as a dreamer. No. 2 criticism is that his weaker paintings show the feverishness and cheapness of the merely "good idea...
...Braggs. Such is the domain which comes into the hands of Sir William Lawrence Bragg, fifth Cavendish Professor. Like his predecessor, Lord Rutherford, Professor Bragg, 48, was born in the Dominions. His father is Sir William Henry Bragg, who has a scientific reputation no less lustrous than his son's. In 1885 the elder Bragg sailed from England to assume a professorship of mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Primarily a mathematician, he bought a batch of textbooks, boned up on physics during the voyage...