Word: frowningly
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...time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed of. It would be interesting if Professor Perry should ever draw upon the stock of reserve force that undeniably lies behind his writing-but he is plainly prevented from doing...
However, when our journalistic art comes of age (which there are signs that it is already beginning to do) it will no doubt take an entirely different form from that of France. French cartoons tend to make the observer wince or smile, the American to make him laugh or frown. Forain is of the first type of French cartoonist; sombre, mordant, much wit and little humor...
This is a position which many will frown upon--and rightly. For it does not consider this fact. Unfortunately among our numbers at least a half--most of them in the lower classes, although not all--suffered from delayed maturity to such an extent that by the end of their second year in college they were sufficiently developed to get something out of a Freshman year. They can not be let alone; if they are, they will get into trouble. Hence, instead of allowing them to sink or swim, we must support them on the water wings of college activities...
...more delightful innovation. The equipment is very little-a little money, and the ability to say "Buy" or "Sell." One other requisite seems to be a rather large, rather black cigar, and the ability to tilt it heavenward at a precarious and important angle. These, coupled with a slight frown on the brow which shields mighty thoughts, and our undergraduate Napoleon of Finance is ready for the fray...
...comrade glimpse a frown...