Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only when Bill got interested in flying did he begin to shine. To enter a military flying school he had to have college credits, which he earned without much trouble...
...traditional "grudge game" will be played rain or shine. Last year Harvard took a drubbing from the Yale nine, 18-0. With the eight newly-elected PBK Juniors in key spots, Crimson hopes to reverse last year's defeat...
During the war, her husband went into uniform (he became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Force radio unit), and Ros was off on USO shows, telling jokes and singing Baby, That's a Wolf. In Washington, she met Mamie Eisenhower. They took an instant shine to each other: Mamie asked Ros to tea, and Ros asked Mamie to dinner. She did not meet the General until three years later...
...noted with interest the information contained in your Feb. 23 article, "Hot Tips." In view of the overwhelming generosity that U.S. Senators display in proffering $1 gratuities for $1.50 haircuts and 25^? gratuities for a 25? shine, it would seem that they should be willing to pay an additional 50? for a haircut to a leased barbershop concession in the Senate building . . . and thereby eliminate the expense of maintaining a staff and supplies for the barbershop force on the Government payroll...
Paramount gave her a screen test, coldly classified her appearance as "unprepossessing but took a high shine to her etching voice. After a breaking-in period she was funneled into a script called The Mars Are Singing that had aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, youthful Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti (TIME, May 8, 1950) and a performing dog to recommend it, but little else. To Rosemary the director parceled out a couple of routine songs, Haven't Got a Worry and Lovely Weather for Ducks, and a reprise of Come On-a My House; it began to look...