Word: shone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniforms leaned upon their halberds. It was near dawn, and broad St. Peter's Square lay still and dark in the cool Roman night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
Captain and quarterback of the first squad is Bob Prario of Eliot. On a last-place team, he has shone consistently as a ball-carrier and field general, his best game being against Dudley, when he made runs of 60 and 35 yards without interference...
Yesterday afternoon Harlow had the boys working hard on backfield tackling and kicking off, two departments which have not exactly shone so far. Chief Boston and Austie Harding a question-mark as to action, the burden is likely to fall on Daughters again. His boots have improved markedly since last Saturday's ground-loopers...
...exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England). An old friend of the Prendergasts, Mr. Brooks not only suggested the show to the Addison Gallery's Curator Charles H. Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting because Maurice Prendergast was a simple man. While working in a Boston dry goods store as a boy, he made his first sketches of women's dresses that stood about the shop. "Nothing amused his eyes," says Van Wyck Brooks, "more...