Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roost," an American Comedy by Fred Herendeen, is principally another way for the playgoer to fritter away an evening until the season settles down to being serious. In spite of the resuscitation of some very old jokes, the evening will be pleasantly enough spent, with an almost perpetual grin occasionally erupting into a laugh. But that's about all to expect...
...page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that I was supposed to open my mouth and speak my piece and not sit there and grin in surprise...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...
...Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled inconspicuously with his incognito "Duke of Lancaster" but great capitals fully six inches high proclaimed the trunks of MRS. ERNEST SIMPSON...
There was no grin on Joe McDonald's face when he told newshawks how he had headed a delegation to Governor Landon last December to demand immediate enactment of State social security laws. "We put it up to him and he told me that the needy in our county were getting adequate relief...