Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey shirt strode from one Department of Commerce conference room to another last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...their guests from the State dining-room to the Blue Room where 250 other guests had gathered for the first big formal function of the new Administration (see p. 7). All official Washington was there, shaking hands, expanding under Mrs. Roosevelt's informal hospitality. Fat little Maxim Litvinoff grinned his toothless grin oftener than usual. He was going upstairs with the President afterward to receive the papers which would formally seal the recognition of Soviet Russia...
Baring his canine teeth in a merry grin, round little Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. shrewd, sly Foreign Commissar of the U. S. S. R., arrived in the U. S. last week. He promptly reminded the Press that President Roosevelt had "taken the initiative in addressing Mr. Kalinin." repeated the statement he had made in Berlin that as far as he was concerned it would take "less than half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation...
...Iron & Steel Institute (which under its new NRA code had just begun to make official weekly reports on steel operations) slapped John Stockholder square on his grin with the announcement that steel operations were at 26.1% of capacity, not anywhere near the 59% high of the third quarter...
...grin demolished, John Stockholder still waited for better news...