Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grammar book as a sample of beautiful writing: "The earth sighed as it turned on its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides...
...rattlesnake steaks were served on toast, garnished with lettuce. The flesh resembled salmon. Reported the "Gulf Gleam" column of the Tampa Tribune: "We thought our comrades must have been bitten by a bottle of Tampa liquor and were taking the rattlesnake as antidote...
...Dirty days hath September, April, June and November; Seven more have thirty-one without a gleam of light or sun If any month had thirty-two, they'd be dark and dirty...
...staff of General Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed him on the highest judiciary body of the land. As a great jurist, his knowledge of the law never has subordinated the human equation, never has quenched the kindly gleam of tolerance in the profound seriousness of the sage...
...moved his lavatory down the street and established it opposite another café. But M. Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year later he had become a super-politician, beardless, monocled, fastidiously draped, who had gigantically dishonest deals as far as South America, had acquired M. Castel...