Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined by an emotion unusual even in this crowd. It was a haggard, sickly face; the broad, bushy mustache gave it an artificially wild look; the protruding, hyperthyroid eyes sent forth an exaggerated gleam. . . . The man to whom this face belongs stands apparently alone in the crowd...
...challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every dollar dey got! I'll turn da jernt inta a bowlin' alley!"). But the conspiratorial gleam which accompanies Jimmy's every imprecation ("Surrounded by assassins!") is a token of the vast human warmth he pours into giving pleasure and derives from having it received ("I know dere's a million good-lookin' guys, but I'm a novelty...
...Gleam. In Chicago, President John Holmes of Swift & Co. promised that the postwar world would have an eskimo pie with a shatterproof coat...
Mother Advocate made good her threat to retaliate on those Bow Street boys with a secret weapon, in a deceptive attack last evening on the Poon Building, Yank Levy style. The secret weapon was unmasked and its effects gleam brightly on the portals to the Lampoon...
...Rourke (Warner) is radio-advertised by a police voice: "Calling all moviegoers! Calling all moviegoers! Be on lookout for "Princess O'Rourke," better known as Olivia de Havilland. Five feet three, and every inch a darling. Also young American pilot, known as Robert Cummings. Six feet one, has gleam in his eye. This couple believed to have stolen everybody's heart. . . . That...