Word: tarnishable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Jordan and a committee of faculty and students are now giving the system its periodic examination. Chances are some of the tarnish may be removed, and Radcliffe's honor system will again take on high lustre...
...awareness of the 'Glades' endless beauties and dangers as she grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman...
...Hollywood admitted more TV tarnish to its Golden Era when 20th Century...
SILVER LINING. J. W. Wolfenden Corp., Attleboro, Mass., offered a new silverware which is kept tarnish-proof by a coating baked on the silver. Price: 10% above regular sterlingware...
...Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense of style and capacity for the grand style, her brilliant gifts of comedy, gesture and language throw a bright aura round a figure that Playwright Bridie leaves unfocused...