Word: grin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which...
Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...
Last week, tall, aristocratic, big-boned M. Bratiano sat as a mere Deputy, disconsolate, while a broad, confident peasant grin spread under the small, black moustache of M. Maniu. Just prior to the opening of Parliament, the black moustache brushed ever so lightly and reverently the hand of Her Majesty the Dowager Queen...
...Smith technique during parades: sweep the hat, inclusively, at nearby crowds. Grin squarely at this person, then that. Answer cries with a comeback now and then. Scan crowds at distant windows; single out one group, grin and wave the hat straight at the group. A distant concerted cheer will come back. People in the street look up. Everyone cheers...
Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which...