Word: shone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the production was surprisingly above the Repertory's average. It seemed that the cast shone in their paste and brass setting to better advantage than in any of their platinum and gilt-edged plays of the early season. The triangle which the play required was an acute-angled isoceles, with Guy Phillips, the lover of the lady in the case, flubbing badly. Mr. Jewett, in the role of the ridiculously stupid and irate husband, was not to be surpassed. His whole stage presence lends itself to the role. Miss Taylor struggled with the incredible role of the lady...
...great fight against the Exeter five, and it the end of the regulation time each team had 38 points. In the extra five-minute period, Exeter scored three goals to Harvard's one. Heleright and Maier led the school team's attack, while Captain Wenner and Ward shone for the Crimson...
Next day the warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought...
...upon the quay, it was seen that the Duchess had donned with a reason her ensemble of silver grey shoes, stockings, custume and hat, relieved only by a bunch of violets. There, lolling upon the waves, lay the grim, dark grey Atlantic Fleet; but, in the centre, the Renown shone all resplendent in silver grey dress paint...
Near the stamps of Collector Hind the lights of the Grand Central Palace shone on a stamp with George Washington's face on it (an old New York issue, one of the rarest stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some...