Word: shone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembers the Chicago World's Fair-the Fair before the last-in 1893, has forgotten Frederick William MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. It was the largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales...
Lowell's hitting stars of the game were Robin Scully, Joe Lyford, and Wally Liverance. Center fielder Mel Gordon shone defensively...
Pitchford turned in a fine mound job, striking out Milton batters at random. In the batters' box Captain Mike Rice a shone getting two hits before he left the game in the eighth with a bad ankle. Jimmy Lynch also accounted for a bingle that went for three bases...
Light from blue-&-red stained-glass windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined...
Acquitted of manslaughter, he was transferred to Oklahoma City to edit the Oklahoma News. But the shock of the killing had dimmed some of Crusader Magee's fire, and after the death of old E. W., the Scripps beacon no longer shone so brightly. Editor Magee quit in 1933 to market a parking meter he had invented...