Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper, a man with an eye for political talent, took a shine to young George Armistead Smathers as soon as he spotted him back in 1938. Smathers, a handsome, athletic law student, had been captain of the University of Florida basketball team and president of the student body. Pepper made him a sort of junior-grade campaign manager, later helped him get a job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Miami...
Lifted Eyebrow. Not even Godfrey himself can quite explain how he does it. Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...
...Europe is that it has bred a generation of children without a childhood. The normally irresponsible years of infancy and adolescence must be replaced by a competition for survival; the process of maturity becomes the development of an emotional callousness. Of all the post-war movies ("Shoe Shine," "The Search," "The Bicycle Thief") that have described these children, "Germany Year Zero" presents the most drastic outcome--the story of a twelve-year-old boy who was so embittered by life during his few years that he committed suicide...
Born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne broke into the movies as a prop man, graduated to cowboy actor when Director John Ford took a shine to him. Through most of the '30s, he made quickie westerns so fast that he "practically had to sleep on a horse." In 1939 Director Ford came to the rescue with a leading role in Stagecoach. After that, Wayne's career went ahead at full gallop...
Steinhart, Fox Shine...