Word: lustrous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steady Ben Hogan, who weighs a mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...trouble with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling a bit-player "Maudie" does not make her Maude Adams. The Leading Lady, to be sure, had its moments-thanks largely to such accomplished character actors as Ethel Griffies and William J. Kelly-but there were not enough of them for the play to. run more than one week...
...lyrics have lost a good deal of their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...
Mourning Becomes Electro. A lustrous cinemagnification of Eugene O'Neill's magniloquent tragedy of incest; with Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave (TIME...
...crooner (Lee Bowman) who rises too fast in the world, and of what the rise does to his wife (Susan Hay ward). The wife serves him well and happily, so long as he is handling cowboy ballads on 6 a.m. radio dates. But once he comes into that lustrous realm in which appearances and contacts and discreet intrigue count for so much, a Perfect Secretary (Marsha Hunt) takes over more & more of the spadework. She even decorates the crooner's new apartment, and selects gifts for his wife. The wife, robbed of every reason to believe that...