Word: glints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio began could unanswerably justify the business of broadcasting as now conducted, CBS's news coverage since 1938 might well be it. But the radio business as now conducted has been challenged by the Government's powerful Communications Commission. An observer at the banquet could note the glint of FCC Chairman James Fly's glasses down the table as CBS's earnest, boylike President William S. Paley, praising Murrow, promised to fight for freedom of the air "no matter whence, nor how subtly or how boldly comes the attack...
...grey bangs newly barbered, his coat collar fitting as badly as ever, Secretary of War Stimson paced into his press conference with a glint in his usually glintless eye. He had something up his sleeve: a postcard. To 40 correspondents and Army officers, stewing gently in Washington's summer steam heat, he made a couple of routine announcements, then cleared his throat and waited for questions...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland take a back seat for Raymond Massey in this one. The lanky Canadian plays John Brown of Kansas to the last glint of his mad eyes. Somehow you feel that this should be the one time when Errol Flynn can't shoot his way out of the flaming barn...
...human Christs and semi-Christs to a suffering world as Dostoevski made into the most annihilating literature of his century. As a candidate for high honors, however, Mrs. McCullers flunks out flat on a crucial matter. As a writer of words, she is never distinguished, never in one glint verbally original...