Word: gleaming
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...draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam...
This reviewer entered the awesome Loew's State theatre prepared to sigh for what might have been; to long for the scintillating gleam of a brilliant stage play in the face of a chaos of office-and-bedroom scenes on the screen. Robert Sherwood's sparkling drama of old and New Vienna shall be thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which...
...goes quietly mad. With his family crumbling about him, thick-headed Father Ardsley cheerfully congratulates one & all upon their general good fortune, believes that conditions will improve, all will be well. Very softly, Eva, a crazy gleam in her eyes, begins singing "God Save The King." Her younger sister gives her one frightened glance, rushes off to join her married suitor, thus completing the cycle of destruction...
...ladies' man and a bit primitive, what's more. He was killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...
...villa at Nice, broke. Even the daughter's practical U. S. suitor cannot keep Mrs. Hope from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework in a white satin ball gown, frequently retires to her bedroom and communicates with her children on postal cards carried by the maid. An amiable rich Jew. whom she thinks "so Oriental." finally appears to solve...