Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the bulldog again wears an engaging grin that displays teeth as well as cheerfulness, and John Harvard dispenses hospitality with one hand while he meditatively sharpens his pioneer's axe with the other. This is the time when indifference takes its annual vacation, for the tradition of fifty years f mutual regard and respect is entering on its second half century...
...from other Protestant Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, were dropped. "Obey" and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" were dropped from the marriage service. Such expressions as "miserable sinners," "the vengeance of God," "the wrath of God" were dropped as medieval. ' The proposal to change "the grin of a dog" to "the snarl of a dog" was defeated. The Litany was amended to petition for those who travel "by land and water or by air." New prayers for state legislatures, law courts, schools and colleges, and social justice were adopted...
...thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile is on the other side of its mouth. Instead of using Balkan disorders as matches to kindle European war fires, it uses them as flares to light the way to a more...
Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under...
...California, 6-1, 6-4. Miss Joan Fry, 19-year old Wimbleton (England) finalist, was no small fry for Miss Mary K. Browne, three times champion, second in the national ranking, who went down, in a sensational upset, before the spectacular drives, the amazing volleys, and the affronting grin of the British frail...