Word: tinseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...
...made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...