Word: tinsel
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Suddenly that comfortable feeling vanished. V-bombs, British authorities admitted last week, had landed in northern England. German authorities identified the target as Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Men, women & children had died under cascading piles of brick; Christmas trees, wearing their tinsel and ornaments, had stood exposed in the wreckage...
...Pravda and Red Fleet, famed Soviet Author Leonid Sobolev tackled the Get thee behind me, Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...
Picasso still experimented with his own brand of cubism, and distorted figure painting. Woman in Blue Waist showed a seated figure against soft green. Woman in Armchair added to Picasso's cubism a pinwheel-and-tinsel fantasy...
...contrast to the lavish U.S. handout of tinsel and ribbon, the British Army, which has been more than two years longer in the war, has given only 10,896 medals; the British Navy, 6,570; the R.A.F...
...Army awards were D.F.C.s and Air Medals for flyers. Regardless of any heroism or merit involved, an Air Medal is usually awarded for five combat flights; an oakleaf cluster for each additional five. Result: 40,585 Air Medals, plus 58,596 clusters, accounted for four-fifths of the Army tinsel factory output...