Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar U.S. boom in Italian fiction, 42-year-old Alberto Moravia has already won a bright place for himself with The Woman of Rome (TIME, Nov. 21). The two long stories in Two Adolescents add to his shine. In each of them Author Moravia tackles one of writing's trickiest problems, telling what happens to a boy in the transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity...
Your eyes may shine, Your teeth may grit, But none of my money Will...
...Ekaterina's father, an old expatriate king, and they had nothing to do but rock around all night in Montmartre nightclubs and drink buckets of champagne, because the old king still got about $3,000,000 a year from the old country. When Ekaterina and Nicolas took a shine to 20-year-old Barnaby Surrey, he thought it too wonderful to be true...
...Trinity Church, Shoeshiner Sam Angarenti cast a glum eye on the Wall Street brokers, clerks and messengers who were hurrying to work in the drizzling rain. Yanking his fuzzy wool cap down tighter over his ears, Sam cursed the weather and bad business. "Nobody wants to get a shine any more," he growled, "but I guess they're making money over there...
...Cambridge, Massachusetts. This style did not evolve as the result of a group meeting over a few beers and deciding exactly what a student should wear; it has evolved for the sake of comfort and utility. For example, flannels--no cleaning, button-down shirts--no starch, white bucks--no shine, white socks--no hand washing...