Word: shiner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dempsey's Shiner...
Inasmuch as I have never yet seen a published photograph of a prizefighter (successful or otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...
...cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded-Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld-was the second of her cinema career. In addition to giving the best performance of the year in The Great Ziegfeld, Luise Rainer (rhymes with "shiner") gave highly distinguished ones in her first picture, Escapade, in which, newly arrived from Vienna, she became a star overnight when Myrna Loy refused to play the lead, and in The Good Earth, released too late for consideration last week. In one of the busiest 1936s in or out of the cinema...
Early in the first half Gray's eye came into violent contact with a Columbian's head during a scrimmage; and yesterday the results of this crash were clearly evident in the beautiful shiner the Harvard leader was carrying around with him. During that game it was more than just a black eye; he got a nasty cut as well. The Lions were not rid of him, however, for he was back in there after a couple of minutes and went driving in again and again through the Columbia defense...