Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveled to the U.S. in all the luxury of cabin class, but he atoned for this by asking "if he could have his meals with the crew." In New York (for the production of Within the Gates'), he landed in a world of "walnut and mahogany reflecting the gleam of glass and the glitter of silver," a world more "fit for Arnold Bennett. . . than . . . Walt Whitman." At which point the reader suspects that it fit O'Casey like a glove...
...when Trotsky made the cover a second time on Nov. 21, 1927. Joseph Stalin, said TIME, "is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination...
...Compromise. Shivers took the dread word back to Texas and solemnly pronounced Stevenson anathema. A rebel gleam began to shine in the eyes of Texas. But under the loyalty pledge Shivers had accepted, he was committed to do his best to get Stevenson and Sparkman on the Texas ballot. Attorney General Daniel proposed a plan which many other Democratic leaders endorsed: list Stevenson and Sparkman as the "Federal Democratic" candidates, Eisenhower and Nixon as the "Texas Democratic" candidates. That would ease the minds of born & bred Democrats who couldn't bear to step across the party line...
American. Still a gleam in the eye of Colonel Robert ("Bertie") McCormick. McCormick has been wrestling with his conscience ever since the Republican Party nominated Dwight Eisenhower, whom the colonel considers little better than a New Dealer. Strong factors operating to keep the colonel in the fold were the influence of his wife, who is reconciled to Ike (TIME, Aug. 11, the heritage of his Chicago Tribune, a bulwark of Republicanism since 1856, and family tradition ("My grandfather founded the Republican Party"*). Last week, however, the colonel decided that "I will be imposed upon no longer" and announced that...
...real Tom Sawyer was very like the real Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...