Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promises to occupy the meet spotlight, with Jim Lightbody defending his meet record against a brilliant field. Last year he blazed across the line in 1:13.8, leading Dartmouth's Jud Foster and Cornell's Johnny Nevius by little more than a broad grin. Foster and Nevius are back this year, and in addition there is a speedy newcomer from New Haven, Frank Curtis, who is doubling in the 300, and who has broken...
...that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone...
...incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...
Three years ago when the U. S. was suffering from cold. Senator Adams was photographed, grinning, beside a weather map which recorded that in Denver the temperature was six degrees above freezing (see cut). Last week with Denver temperatures down below freezing. Mr. Adams could not grin, but he had returned to the Capital firm in his belief that $725,000,000 ought to be enough to keep reliefers from being turned out into the snow between now and spring...
...have you think. It can't be all burning ships and wars and jungles; doesn't Photographer Gable ever have to shoot the Sweepstake winners, or the first snowfall, or Santa Claus, or third assistant secretary Throttlebottom's speech, you wonder. However, Mr. Gable has the wonderful ability to grin convincingly even when the joke is on himself. And who wouldn't go to South America with Miss Loy? Heck, even the savages in "Too Hot To Handle" are dandy...