Word: glinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goings-on carry the girls to the unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...
...life of TV comedians is hazardous -and usually brief. But in his rueful, often incoherent way, Buddy is not worried about going stale. For the moment, Liebman's Stanley is just a shiny new toy. Says Buddy, a sad, mad glint lighting up his beady brown eyes: "I don't expect nuttin' from nobody...
...Glint of a Pin. The addition done, the FBI and police arrested swarthy Angelo John LaMarca, 31, in Plainview, five miles from the Weinberger home. At headquarters LaMarca, sometime mechanic and cab driver and the father of two children, stolidly confessed. Two months before the kidnaping, he said, he had moved his family into a new $15,000 split-level home. He was broke, and the bills were piling up. He needed $2,000. On the Fourth of July he decided that a kidnaping was the only...
After LaMarca told his story, police and federal agents moved out to seek corroboration. Lined up an arm's length apart, 60 searchers began their slow walk through the thicket. After an hour FBI Agent J. Robert Boger, on his hands and knees in the underbrush, caught the glint of a safety pin. He groped again through a mass of brush and vines, found fragments of clothing, then found what Nassau County's medical examiner later identified as "the remains of an infant child...
...which, in The Evolution of Saxby, Bates makes clear that Saxby is the sort of man who, if it were not wartime, would be wearing a rosebud in his buttonhole. But a dozen other tales-of love glimpsed suddenly across a roomful of dreadful people, of a glint of bitterness in an ill-mated couple on a journey, of remembered death-have power to move the heart...