Word: shines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus it is difficult to see any real improvement over the old and admittedly inefficient general faculty meeting. While at first glance it seems to shine with an aura of super-refined efficiency, critical examination proves that it is only Old Faithful, paraded out under a new name...
...musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes," "New Sun in the Sky") have been critically commended for their literacy, their agile rhymes, their musical variety and structure...
...Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory...
...Moscow's favorite stories is about a bootblack from the Soviet Republic of Georgia who used to hang around the Kremlin gate refusing to shine shoes. "I only need to wait until my old Georgian neighbor Stalin comes along," the bootblack haughtily explained to Bolsheviks who sought a shine. "He will make me a Commissar or Ambassador at least...
Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...