Word: grin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hackensack, N. J., one Joseph Schnugg grinned at the five cards of a poker hand he had just been dealt. There was the ace of hearts, the king, queen, jack of hearts, and another card that was neither a heart nor a ten. Hence the grin upon the face of Mr. Schnugg; he had come so near to having the highest hand in poker, a natural royal flush, and his chance of drawing the needed card (ten of hearts) was so minute as to be nigh undecipherable. Mr. Schnugg stretched out his hand to the pack, flushed to the ears...
...bunkers. Picking his way from the tee, his mashie still in his hand, J. H. Taylor, five times (1894, '95, 1900, '09, '13) British Open Champion, came to 'the green, watched his partner putt," received the snowy ball?holed in one? from his middle-aged caddy, whose grin was to say: "Aye, a bonny shot. An ye'll be gi'en me a bottle o' whuskey the nicht...
...seat. If she cried when she got there, it was nerves, not bad sportsmanship. "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S." Loudly, brightly, firmly, confidently, 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville, Ky., spelled it right. Then he stood quivering with excitement, choking back a grin, while the auditorium-a Washington, D. C, one-crackled loudly with applause for the first national spelling champion, victor over two million foes by the harrowing margin of a single vowel. Frank eagerly accepted his prizes, a gold medal and $500 in gold which his father, a millhand, said Frank would save...
...cake of ice and an electric fan are all right as long as they last, and a certain number of showers at strategic intervals are not without their good effect, but in the feverish heat of preparing for examinations all that the studious sufferer can do is grin and bear it. That and acquire a shot-gun to be used on the self-appointed humorist who says: "Is it hot enough...
...Berger, Socialist U. S. Congressman from Milwaukee; Morris Hillquit, suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S. Congressman Meyer London of Manhattan; Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union; and, his grin framed with scars of battle, one-time convict Debs. Fourteen hundred diners and nearly 1,000 at the crowded doors yelled, clapped, bellowed when the hero took his seat...