Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
Novice Eshleman, an astral gleam in his eye, took off for what he said (in a letter to the press) would be Mars, 51,813,800 miles away.* Near Philadelphia he alighted briefly to take on 55 gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...
...Fair has hit most night spots as hard as the shows. Many night clubs smell of fresh paint, gleam with new chromium, prance with new legs, but the nocturnstiles are not clicking-while at the Fair such places as the French Pavilion, where the check for eight people may come to $90,. are jammed. Some of the entertainments which Manhattan's 135 night-club owners have put on for hoped-for Fair visitors...
...biggest job of regional art jurying ever undertaken in the U. S. Working all week at an average rate of one work of art per minute, eight hours a day, three nine-member juries barely got through at week's end. Observed Grover Whalen with his usual gleam: "The judging has taught us all a lesson in democracy and the American...
Turning back, Vag found all attention centered on a match cover which the Master was holding out. Yes, yes, murmured the Red Pepper with a reminiscent gleam in his eye. He had been there, too. Vag strained his neck a little toward the matches. With a little more effort he might have caught a glimpse but he couldn't stretch his neck all over the table. He would soon be looking like a giraffe...