Word: tinsel
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...Evening gowns will be an embroiderer's delight, appliqued with sequins, bugles, braid, beads and tinsel. Alix and Molyneux favor very full skirts, elaborately draped-fashion scouts kept harping on the word "Baroque...
...lean, 61-year-old Scotsman, now Lord Tweedsmuir but until two years ago just plain John Buchan, writer of history, biography and light-hearted adventure tales," hastened to explain that a tinsel uniform was not his customary garb, then to say that he had asked to see the press in hope that some of the War correspondents whom he had known 20 years ago when he was serving as the British Director of Information in France might be among them. Were there any such? The newshawks looked at one another...
...first costumes for the fairy story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now rents out 50.000 costumes. In Northwestern University's Thome Hall. Costumologist Schmidt was introduced by President Walter Dill Scott, after her speech was presented a velvet cushion topped by a large gilt and tinsel crown...
They realize that stripped by merciless satire and ridicule of their tinsel, their flag-waving, and their lip-service to the tenets of human liberty and progress, men and women everywhere will see them and their cohorts for what they are-dealers in death and destruction...
...find himself in a satin-lined ash can. Other trial balloons have soared gracefully over the capital before but treacherous currents usually carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word of our President who is well-intentioned even if circumstances make him sometimes an inaccurate sage...