Word: gleam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual as the circular office building, the first of its kind in the world, is its owner-Capitol Records. Fourteen years ago Capitol was a shellac-like gleam in the eyes of three founders (including Blues in the Night Composer Johnny Mercer), who put up a grand total of $10,000. Last year Britain's giant, conservative Electrical & Musical Industries liked the company so much that it paid $8,300,000 for 96.4% of Capitol's stock...
...take those letters now, Miss Moller." The voice is hard, too, even sexy in a nasal way. Holden flips a Parliament into the corner of his mouth. "Marty? Shoot." Miss Moller brings the letters. Holden stands up suddenly and paces the floor, still listening. His brogues gleam richly on the broadloom, his tie is tensed into a merciless Yale knot. "Yeah, boy. Versteh. Versteh." He sits down, props the phone with his left shoulder, reads the letters with fierce concentration, signs them. Miss Moller leaves the room. "You do that, Marty. Yeah. Get back to me Monday...
...English (Christopher Plummer) she sat in the cruel dock, a brave but pathetic young girl; yet as she played her life out on the stage, a beauty of holiness unfolded out of her and beat upon the faces of the crowd like great white wings. They followed the gleam of her sincerity as she led them through a thicket of theology, until they came to the existential end: that man cannot be true to God except he be true to himself. When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered...
...crises and satisfactions of his life can best be described in his favorite cliches of sport and Broadway. Ed "plays the game hard"; he "hates to be pushed around"; he thinks "the public is always right." He spent most of his youth 25 miles from Broadway, but the gleam of its bright lights was always in his eyes...
George Exintaris, the Greek representative, retorted: "Any government can prevent a mob from running wild." Tiney answered: "The Communists had a hand in stirring up the mobs." Greece's Exintaris, with a triumphant gleam in his eyes, protested: "But I thought you had eradicated Communism in Turkey...