Word: tinsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright is, of course, occupied tearing the trappings from war. He has no sympathy for the tinsel tongue of trumpets nor the romantic tread of heroes. He knows that wounds hurt and that food along the fighting line is not always perfectly prepared. Therefore he spins a love story, puts part of it in uniform, and stands to one side nipping at it with little whips of laughter...
...accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment in his hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would have consulted...
...then traced Roquefort cheese from the sheep to the tinsel foil in which it is wrapped. After this, the Senate referred the matter to a committee...
...Hersey also brought out the fact that Bostonians were accused of pseudo-culture long before the day of Hampden and Clive; he quoted the memoirs of an 1850 dramatist who bewailed the ill fortune of Shakespeare, Sheridan, and the like, when any cheap production with glitter, blare, and tinsel packed the house...
...Snowden has lost her head because the King happened to have said 'How do you do?' to her, there is still a mass of devoted women in this country determined that the Labor Party shall stand for the ending of all that show and theatrical glitter and tinsel which I saw at the opening of Parliament...