Word: lustrous
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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...latest turnover of comeliness, Fanny Brice is characteristically diverting in several skits, and Clyde Cook, cinema buffoon and onetime Hippodrome favorite, falls about sedulously until he cracks, laughs and nearly breaks his neck. There is a new Victor Herbert ballet, and a Ben Ali Haggin tableau, lustrous and well poised, called The Duel for the sake of a change. But the underlying fabric is of the customary silks and satins...
Beauty's prize is a golden apple, smooth, lustrous, a pretty toy. The prize of 'leadership is a prickly pear...
...symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist, and played like...
...turned her large lustrous eyes upon me and spoke: "Well, of all the living fools, you be the biggest. You're right about my not knowing nothing about lawn tennis and such like, and I guess father could kinder take you to board for the summer at six dollars a week, money paid every Saturday, but all them other things you said hain't no more sense to 'em than apple-parings. Think I'd have you carrying my water-pail round and pestering me all day 'pouring sweet poetry in my eye'? I think I see myself...