Word: tinsel
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...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...
...sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted by six men. Soon Chungking's elite-cabinet ministers, generals, ambassadors, lovely ladies-linked themselves onto the dragon's hindquarters and went into a stamping, winding, lurching dragon dance exactly like those of the antique Ming and Tang...