Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared: "When Mrs. Moses Smith here presented my wife with that beautiful basket of flowers, I heard my wife say in response to a request, 'Oh. I never make speeches.' I never knew that before." The crowd guffawed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked flustered. Continued the President, with a grin and lift of his eyebrows: "Well, live and learn, live and learn...
First Plunge- With lines of fatigue still written on his face from his Cleveland campaign, John Hamilton last week alighted from a plane at Newark to start the Republican campaign in the East. Asked why he had chosen Manhattan he replied with a grin, "Mostly because I want to see the Louis-Schmeling fight...
...Germany this would be blackballed-by the vote of Denmark, scared Socialist neighbor of the Nazis. It was said that if the Council sought to re-admit Germany to membership in the Council, that would be blackballed by the Bolsheviks. As for the Fascists, there was a sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace...
Dick Harlow, curator of birds' nests and eggs in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, broke into a broad grin when questioned yesterday about the recent discovery in Memorial Hall of some mysterious eggs which have so far baffled diagnosis...
...City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...