Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very busy about the deck. The rumor flashed through Havana that Gerardo Machado was about to skip the country. President Machado thereupon broke a silence of many months by inviting U. S. correspondents to the Presidential Palace to hear a statement. His sallow, pocked face broke into a friendly grin as he insisted that he had not the slightest intention of either resigning or running away...
...cinema Menace threatening him. It is his overeagerness. optimism and weakness for showing off before Minnie that get him into trouble. When Minnie is in danger he rescues her. Toward her he smiles a vast lopsided smile that wavers now and then with embarrassment, returns soon to the simpleton grin. He turns everything to use. He wrestles off the edge of a cliff, wrestles on in midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey...
...From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler. Turkey's Kemal Pasha, Poland's Pilsudski. A sow named Cleopatra was tried for high treason because she had littered two more pigs than the President...
...Louis' Rialto Building, two migrations were in progress last week with a common destination: Chicago. Famed and farflung Aviation Corp. and its operating subsidiary. American Airways, were on their way to the Kingdom of Cord, and the hardbitten little man who would henceforth rule them undisputed could grin more satisfiedly than ever at the 14 years that have passed since he was selling Moon autos in an agency on lower Michigan Avenue...
Into the sunny oval room shuffled some 120 newshawks, the corps of eyes & ears through which the country sees its President from day to day. Behind a flat-topped desk sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his mouth stretched wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied...