Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...
Emphatic Approval. Others quickly chimed in. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey issued a statement backing the full appropriation. So did California's Governor Earl Warren. Presidential candidate Harold Stassen rushed to Washington to plead with Congress not to "tarnish the national honor of our country." Secretary of State Acme Marshall declared that "the crux of the whole affair [is] confidence in the integrity of leadership of this country...
Gibbon, the only one of the four whom the world did not tarnish, carried the classical spirit to the point of perfection-and, at moments, to the point of parody. The supreme detachment he imparted to his monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he imparted equally to his own life, and to his own account of it. In his Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump...
Banana Royal. In Philadelphia, the lordly British Admiralty sniffed at the hydrogen sulphide in the air, ordered all officers docking there for the summer to prevent tarnish by painting their gold braid, buttons, and decorations with banana...
...Neill does nothing to tarnish the lustre of Tesla's eccentricity. A meticulous dresser, he never used a handkerchief or collar more than once, could often be seen in white tie & tails feeding pigeons on the steps of the 42nd Street library or St. Patrick's Cathedral. Because of an intense germ phobia, he never shook hands if he could help...