Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clouds or rain occur in the belt. There is a notion that the prevailing wind is easterly, counter to the earth's movement; but Professor Piccard last week snorted: "That's a lot of bosh." Also it was supposed that the stratosphere visitor in daytime would see stars shine in a purple sky. Piccard's sky was deep, dark blue but starless...
...when Producer Belasco had the temerity to star Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Ugly Duckling. The show and its leading lady were outstanding successes. Mrs. Carter worked for Belasco for the next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully...
...escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine, The Temple Tower). The third day out the Taylor was to be relieved by the Dupont from Guantanamo. A miniature presidential review was arranged. For nearly an hour the President, Capt. Freeman and the Arizona's crew stood at the rail awaiting the Dupont which had miscalculated the battleship...
...advantages to this manner. The extreme self-possession of the average Princeton man gives him the somewhat meretricious air of having a vast knowledge of the world and its ways, a quality that is revered everywhere. He is inclined to cultivate the social graces, to have his daily shave, shine, shower, and shampoo, and to wear the right clothes on the right occasions; hence he is a very desirable member of the society in which he moves. But the fact remains that he is a hard person to know for what he really is, that sooner or later the world...
...advice latent in the accompanying press from Princeton's daily carries with it a real Message. For those who have already experienced the shave, shower, shine, and shampoo sequence, it will be welcome corroboration. To those super-sophisticates for whom this little round of activity has lost its first blush of freshness, it offers consolation and reward...