Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against the curving white wall of President Roosevelt's study on the second floor of the White House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will...
...investigators are trying to cure tuberculosis by introducing ultraviolet light to infected body cavities. The artificial sunlight might kill the germs and heal the tissues if it could shine on them. A problem has been how to build a light producer small enough and cool enough to get into the cavities. Last year Drs. John Roberts Caulk & Frank Henry Ewerhardt of Washington University, St. Louis, successfully entered a tuberculous bladder, alleviated it with irradiation. They used a cold quartz generator of ultraviolet light...
...pictures that look like calendars in village postoffices: an Indian, a landscape, a glossily highlighted Flemish Fisher. His star pupil, Convict R. Rehm, has faithfully copied Gainsborough's Blue Boy and painted an original picture of rearing, free Wild Horses from his own dreams. Even the wild horses shine with idealism. Another pupil, Convict H. Nelson, produces pictures like railroad travel posters advertising any place but Dannemora...
Paramount--"The Big Broadcast," a dreary parade of Radio's luminaries, who shine very dimly indeed on the screen. One "Bing" Crosby booms and sighs, one Kate Smith yearns audibly in song, one Stuart Erwin falls over things. A dire prophecy of television...
...fitting suit, wearing an undersized brown derby, is presented in the flesh. He is impersonated by foolish-faced Don Barclay, who rises to sing about himself in the opening scene: With hope in his chest And an egg on his "vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little to do throughout the performance save appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then...