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...lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's desk. In San Diego, OPA investigators found a landlord charging roomers $2.50 a week for the privilege of using the front door. In Manhattan, department stores offered a new preparation for sale-a liquid to take the shine off the seat of the pants...
Less affected by baseball's innumerable hoodoos are the other names that should shine in baseball's biggest event: the Yankees' aging (36) Bill Dickey, a Gibraltar of a catcher for 16 years, who hits .348 in those games he feels spry enough to play; the Cardinals', shy Stan Musial, a sprinting outfielder who leads the National League in hitting (.358); Yankee third-baseman Bill Johnson, whom Connie Mack calls the year's best rookie...
...this regard. The number of marine rolls which some men would make up and their wide disposition augurs well for the imaginative faculties of the class--and if imagination will help in solving the practical disbursing problems which we will meet on permanent duty, then our class should really shine...
...full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before. These Russian classics shine against the cheap, easy sheen of most films (and much of this film) as nobly as a battle flag against the patriotism worn by a chorus girl for a breechclout...
This was not one of Churchill's greatest speeches, though any other orator might well have envied it. His courage and his eloquence shine brightest in adversity. When he first appeared before Congress, on Dec. 26, 1941, Allied prospects were dim and the U.S. was reeling under the first shock of war. Then, speaking from manuscript, he tingled flesh and tightened throats with the indomitable defiance of his ringing phrases...