Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...
...grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended by his consorts, an old herd leader with a hump like a hillock, beard to the ground and the gleam of fretful age in his small red eyes...
...gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer, too little as a college student...
...born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks of New York"; mothers kissed smudgy-faced ragamuffins who wanted to be "Al" Smiths when they grew up. Now Governor Smith is running...
...chocolate, four lumps of sugar, six crackers. He heard cheerleader Louis Timson's booming bass notes canter over the waves: "Oh, Millie! Oh, Millie! How you can swim!" He saw his wife almost go under in the backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren. But on the sands of Dover he kissed her, revived her, said: "She's the finest girl in the world, and the best swimmer in the world." Meanwhile, one C. Walter Lissberger, a Manhattan tire merchant...