Word: shined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...
...followed his big brother at Yale. He followed his big brother at Cincinnati Law School. He followed his big brother in being admitted to the bar. Then he decided that he might not shine with so bright a legal light as big brother, so he became a tutor in Latin, for which he had great love. He had some money and soon founded a school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to give boys a thorough foundation in the classics. Three years later, in 1893, he moved the school to an old hotel on a hill in Watertown, Conn...
...Rain or Shine. Joe Cook is a comic, worshiped not by his public but by his disciples. He is a comedian funny through the sheer disconnection of his dialogues. He tells unending stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with...
This was the chief comment vouchsafed by the leader of the English visitors at Harvard yesterday afternoon. He was very much gratified when he was informed that Harvard Square abounded in wielders of the brush and shine cloth...
...safe to say that were "Bossy" the mayor of Boston instead of Newburyport, the opinions of the notionary residents of Beacon Hill would not gain even an audience, if their petition were as it is now for the permanent erasure of the words of moving light that shine down upon the theatre district. The mayors amateur standing is as yet untainted by any connection with rotarianism. He maybe "the most oppressed man ever to seek this high office. "But no would be Menckens dare mock at him for, as his predecessor in office admits he has the right...