Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics and Michael Lay's music. Ziegler starts each song with real promise: the words are crisp and the rhymes ingenious; then, just where he needs a punch line on each verse, he rests on his creative oars. The result is insipid lyrics, more annoying because they could shine through to redeem the book...
Spit & Polish. In Dublin, Ga., Shoeshine Boy Charlie Williams was arrested for giving away a slug of moonshine whisky with every shine...
...Ascot costs only ?10 (?7 for women), but for two centuries British horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads the Church of England (which frowns...
Furthermore, says Schwerin, "TV is not an advantageous medium for every type of product ... It is easy to show that a shoe polish will shine shoes, but how can you show that a pill will give relief?" Many a TV ad fails, says he, because admen are "college men ... not in rapport with the people they are communicating...
Being an arena theatre, the Tufts playhouse offers little chance for the show's technicians to shine. They didn't but there were lighting, scenery, costumes and the like--all, again, competent...