Word: sunburst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, dowager queen of the Met, the press found Mrs. George Washington ("Tiffany's front window") Kavanaugh almost as impressive and much more cooperative. She arrived in her Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...
...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
True News and Good. For news-starved Parisians, liberation came like a sunburst. Suddenly news that was not only true but good seemed to come from everywhere - even the telephone. By dialing INF-1, Parisians could hear a recorded summary of world and local news, brought up to date every hour. Underground news papers which had hidden in cellars and garrets came out in the sun. Some pre-conquest papers, including Figaro and Ce Soir, were revived. Many great names of the prewar French press were gone, the papers that had either sold out or submitted to the conqueror...
Behind the Siena front in Italy, he decorated the U.S. Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark with the sunburst plaque of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. De Gaulle's point: he was the Frenchman entitled to confer French honors...
Billows of cigar smoke obscured the mayor's sunburst face. He later told reporters : "I am very happy I wasn't called upon to speak. I would have called his attention to ... worse slums. ... A little information is a dangerous thing and Pomeroy has a little...