Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washa know, Joe? Ain't sheen you yearsh. Howzsh yer ulcer? Have a drink." The foregoing bit of tipsy doodle is an awfully good facsimile of typical convesation between two Old Blue Grads, when a quarter of a century has passed and the first graduating class of the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies convenes, with glasses raised on sly, for a reunion...
...question has always been: Is Dali crazy? The book indicates that Dali is as crazy as a fox. Dali is a superb draftsman, whose painting technique reveals the sheen of an old master. In both his painting and writing he is sensationally packaging fantasies of his own, plus ideas inspired by Freud. Dali's soft watches may even be considered as a sort of Dali trademark. He has mode an exceptionally good thing of art, is likely to do the same with this book...
...trench warfare. They seemed to kill and to die with a special dash and lavishness. In a war and at a time when glory had almost lost its meaning, when the word was a travesty upon the heaping millions of the dead, the Canadians in France kept the sheen of glory...
...Express in World War I, Jane Anderson was Mrs. Deems Taylor, wife of the composer. During the Spanish Civil War (then married to the Marques Alvarez de Cienfuegos) Catholic Digest called her "the world's greatest woman orator in the fight against Communism." To Catholic University's Monsignor Fulton Sheen she was "one of the living martyrs...
Painted with broad brushwork reminiscent of Georges Rouault's (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), the show's 58 pictures depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...