Word: shiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio's Democratic Representative Stephen M. Young showed up in Washington with his fourth annual black eye and his fourth reasonable explanation: "You won't believe it, but I walked right into a plate glass door at my hotel." Previous reasonable explanations: "I got shiner number one when a dentist swung his X-ray device and bumped me. Numbers two and three were the results of accidents while playing paddle tennis in the House gymnasium...
...junior year Eliot decided that he was too puny, took boxing lessons, once proudly sported a luminous shiner. He also delighted his classmates* by writing risque doggerel about a mythical King Bolo and his Queen ("that airy fairy hairy-'un, / Who led the dance on Golder's Green / With Cardinal Bessarion"). In addition to chronicling the doings of King Bolo, he contributed romantic verse to the Harvard Advocate. After Harvard, Eliot went to study in Paris for a year ("on the old man's money"), and in a Left Bank flat wrote his first significant poem...
...Flowers for Shiner the strain is notably weakened: plenty of people will still take Llewellyn, but few are apt to be knocked off their feet. But in Hollywood there may well be an epidemic of ecstasy; a clod could scarcely fail to make an exciting movie out of this book. How can a director miss with a story whose heroine is a truck...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...
...Shiner's grave occurs a scene to raise a lump in the gullet of the steeliest projection machine. Snowy potters about, planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after...