Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Russian bear growls at Great Britain nowadays, the British lion, instead of growling back, usually answers with a broad, friendly grin...
...weeks Broadway has had a dazed look in its eyes, a toothy grin on its face, and its itching fingers crossed. For, week by week, the line in front of its box offices grew longer and longer. Broadway was frightened to look for reasons, for fear of jinxing itself. But plausible reasons there were...
...machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave him a four-year college...
...Roosevelt said that he had been thinking of much the same thing: he had four sons (James, 31; Elliott, 29; Franklin Jr., 25; John, 23) and the law of averages would hit him harder than Maury Maverick. With a froglike grin, Mayor Maverick said that he hoped the President sent Elliott first...
...last week David Eli Lilienthal, boss of Tennessee Valley Authority, came out of the White House with his lips twisted in a grin of satisfaction. He had just told President Roosevelt that there weren't going to be any more big private utilities in the Tennessee Valley: he had completed final arrangements for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co. Big Commonwealth Corp. was to get $78,600,000 for its operating subsidiary...