Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru by a majority...
...Badgered at eight press conferences in four days, hardy M. Laval kept smiling, kept parrying, spoke the first English words of his trip with a broad, proud grin when he said carefully, successfully "I . . . have . . . finished...
...which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along the car's side: WE WANT BEER. That had become the rallying...
...outdrives any woman opponent and most men. Two years ago she won the first 72-hole medal tournament for women, at Flossmoor, Ill. by 14 strokes. Now 20, Billie Hicks has a freckled nose, fat cheeks, hirsute forearms, chubby legs, a mop of dark hair, a broad Irish grin. She likes to read (John Galsworthy, Louis Bromfield), likes better to race about in her father's big sedan or the smaller car he gave her two years ago. A month ago someone asked her who she thought would win the championship this year. "I think...
...three bottles of champagne at a sitting, eats twice as many grapefruit, breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers to pulverize by wrapping them up in a bath-towel and pounding the towel on the floor. Friendly, sociable, he likes to frighten the patrons of cabarets with his ferocious grin. For dancing companions, he prefers smallish, plump girls to one of whom (Emelia Tersini) his engagement was rumored and denied during the last year...