Word: shine
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about to be called back to the army of his native land. Her husband eventually suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man - to the distress of the wife - has been in love with someone else all the time...
...Admiral Leahy's appointment was a sign, it was a healthy sign. For World War II has deglamored Europe's ambassadorial posts. At this time the U. S. needs as diplomats not those who shine in gay social life, but those who can do a tough job while bombs are falling...
...have a long road to go and I have never concealed from the nation or from the House the darker side of our dangers and burdens. But it is in adversity that the British qualities shine brightest. It is under these extraordinary tests that the character of our slowly wrought institutions reveals its latent and invincible strength. Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire. We have not done so badly...
Bertie Charles Forbes grew up in the Horatio Alger tradition. He can boast of rising at 5 a.m. (aged 12) and walking half a mile through the fields of Aberdeenshire to shine 20 pairs of shoes. He did odd jobs at the age of 9, taught himself shorthand at 13, worked 60 hours as a printer's devil for 75? a week at 14. In the 46 years since then, B. C. Forbes has made a career of discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent...
...Yale on psychology, because Harvard is favored. Underdogs have a way of rising to the occasion in this traditional rivalry. The score will be 14 to 7. I'll take the Yale secondaries over the Harvard backfield, Willoughby and Bartholemy will be headliners for the Blue, and Spreyer will shine for the Crimson...