Word: tinselled
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Fairless pointed to Phil Murray as "an honest man and a great American." Then he took a tinsel-wrapped cigar box from an aide and gave it to Murray. He explained that Murray had learned to like Fairless' little cigars during the negotiating sessions. "Phil," said Fairless, "there's something about you that doesn't go with a cigarette...
Figl, who is 50, embodies the best and the worst in postwar Austria-the worst being complacency and resignation, the best being his stubborn courage. He also combines the simplicity of four centuries of Catholic peasant forebears with some of the acquired awareness (and tinsel knowledge) of Viennese sophisticates. In his well-tailored morning coat, he still looks the farmer, and he seems quite out of place as he sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place...
...sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props and a snippet of scenery. All in all, what had been bright staging in Greenwich Village seemed pretty thin tinsel at the gilded...
...they opened their first store, The Great American Tea Co., on Manhattan's Vesey Street. They used all the glitter and tinsel of a circus. The store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this...
Sirens screaming and horn ablare, Benton & Bowles are riding the air. Tinsel and paint and a jester's cap, Tinkling bells and a moit of pap, Under our elms and over our maples Selling themselves as they sold their staples...