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...society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike company...
...seemed that his father had died when he was two, leaving his mother with several worldly children and a few ethereal dividends. There followed for him the public schools with their trials and tribulations, until in his senior year he saw, through the gloom of adolescent disinterestedness, the gleam of his future profession. It was all he had to his name--this desire for science. But it led him to the state university and on into Medical School. To make money he tutored in the winter; caddied, waited on table, managed a restaurant in the summer. At term time...
...inch higher, a necessary repair, for it had sunk so much and become so insecure that His Majesty could not have worn it much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled was 17th Century England when Oliver Cromwell, having ousted the House of Stuart, discovered that the Queen's coronation crown was a gross imposture of silver-gilt and paste jewels worth
Thou silver moon with softer gleam...
...Christianity in the beginning was like a warming glance that strove to light up the gray face of a spent civilization. . . . When the old Roman Empire passed away, the gleam remained, evoking a face of its own, the Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...