Word: tinsel
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...until the moment of conferring the decoration did the babbittry of Graz become aware of what metal it was composed. Then pandemonium broke loose at "this tinsel insult to Graz!" Leaping to his feet, the Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...
...college failure? Not the poor student, though he may be that too. He is branded a failure who goes through college unnoticed and indistinguished from the crowd. It seems to make no difference that after years often upset these early prognostics of who's who in the class. Tinsel still passes current for gold...
...real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile...
Broadway has killed Mr. Arlen. With gracile gestures bred of histrionic worth the great Cornell, the capable Maude escort his trivial body to the grave of failure. His gay parade was tinsel which the lights of critical Manhattan tarnished and destroyed. Careless and floodingly he wrote; careless they killed him. And now but for the pleasant pageant of their mockery of a funeral, they are quite willing to inspect his successor. Why did he live? Why did he die? He lived because there is even in the most sophisticated heart the occasional warmth of the chambermaid's love...
...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...