Word: tinsel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday evening. (One of the four illustrations in color is Luchow's on a Sunday evening.) In the jungle, too, in a less-than-village, he found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that...
...elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...
Cleverly chosen artificialities, collectively representing the tinsel world of both men and peacocks, form the main body of "Concertino for the Death of a Favorite Peacock," also by Abrahams. The poem propels a telling shaft at a world crowded with forests of obelisks, pilasters, and Byzantine roadhouses...
...Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to You," sent impressions to his friends. So far as is known, this was the first Christmas card. Today, in the U. S. alone, Christmas cards have become a $30,000,000-a-year industry. Artistically most cards are loathsome, crawling with tinsel, Scottie dogs and bilious greenery, but good U. S. artists have begun to muscle in on the trade...
...McCants Andrews 2L. charged that "the Crimson declares war." He went on to say, "The fact is that the CRIMSON is not doing its own thinking; it is merely reflecting manufactured opinion that already has millions of the sons of men destroying one another. It is overcome by the 'tinsel and braggadocio" of marching armies and booming navies. . . .If we must fight let us at least know why we fight and what our gains will...