Word: shone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture Mr. Robinson is both. The story concerns itself with the adventures of a poor, harmless, rabbit-like clerk when it is discovered that he bears an astonishing resemblance to the escaped killer and big shot, Mannion, Both paris are played by Mr. Robinson. Jean Arthur, who has seldom shone very brightly in the stellar firmament of Hollywood, gives an excellent, performance as an easy-going, devil-may-care sort of girl who knows that in the long run the cards are stacked in her direction. In her acting she reveals a sense of humor that should take...
...second issue of the "Harvard Communist" reaches the newsstands, resplendently clad in a cover of baby blue, that most capitalistic of colors, a pure red light is focused upon Harvard's reactionary institutions much as the red spot is shone in the Howard Athenaeum...
Silk hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
...words have made and unmade nations, determined the lives and destinies of untold millions of people, and have been the controlling influence in history for nearly 2000 years. Why? Because behind his simple words throbbed the power of a unique, unconquerable, divine spirit. Behind the veil of utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When I and weak, then am I strong." This ideal changed slaves into masters, cowards, and weaklings into heroes, bad men into saints and martyrs. It can and will transform the world again...
...expected all this good fortune before the first buds broke on the carefully pruned canes last spring. It is ancient legend that wines will be great in any year in which there are two full moons in a given calendar month. Nineteen-Thirty-Four was doubly blessed. Full moons shone Jan. 1 and 30, again March...