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Word: gleams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who where set on being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Some time in June the gleam in big, shambling Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll's eye is due to appear on New York City newsstands as a new afternoon newspaper called P. M. (TiME, Jan. 22). To publicize the coming event and round up artists who could illustrate newstories with sketches as a supplement to photographs, he announced a competition, in collaboration with Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, for newsy drawings, with five top prizes of $100, 20 prizes of $50 each. A jury chose and hung some 200 entries for the public to see, invited gallerygoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists as Reporters | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Copey's eyes shone with a youthful gleam yesterday as he revealed a plan which he has had in mind for years. He is determined, he announced, to buy a cow this spring and to test his right to graze her in the Yard...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Copeland Proves Wit Still Keen As Famed Professor Turns 80 | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...leftist magazines like The Nation and The New Republic, lectured, presided over round-table discussions, was chairman of a Southern committee to study lynching. Long an admirer of Nebraska's Senator George Norris, Milton plugged for the Tennessee Valley Authority when it was no more than a Utopian gleam in Papa Norris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chattanooga's Milton | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantelpiece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his face a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be?" came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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