Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...
Ruppel, 48, an ex-Hearstling who came up in the rough & rowdy Chicago press, chopped off so many heads after he got to Collier's that some staffers began to quit even before they spotted the gleam of his ax. Even such contributors as Quentin Reynolds, Collie Small and Frank Ger-vasi made for the door. Editor Ruppel, one ex-Collier's staffer explained, had never before dealt with magazine writers, accustomed to writing pretty much as they pleased, and he often treated them just as if "he hated writers." But in the upper reaches of Crowell-Collier...
Rambling and reminiscing, the President recalled that he himself had once been a boy editor for the Independence (Mo.) high school paper. It was called The Gleam, "after that admonition in Tennyson's poem-'After it, follow it, follow the Gleam.' "* Then Truman, who seldom misses a chance to upbraid the press, got in a typical dig: "We do have . . . some publications which do not care very much for the truth ... I hope that if any of you become editors of great publications . . . you will stick strictly to the truth and nothing but the truth...
...From Merlin and the Gleam. Tennyson later wrote that "the Gleam . . . signifies . . . the higher poetic imagination...
...lifeboat came back with about $1,100 (raised by passing the hat among the passengers), and with one of the Wing Sang's three American passengers: Edward Stansbury, deputy chief of the U.S. Information Service on Formosa. In the gleam of a flashlight, the pirates counted the money and grumbled that it was not enough. Back went the lifeboat for more, and returned with approximately...