Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense was broader than ever...
Eddie Dowling looks a bit like Manhattan's Mayor Jimmy Walker, has the same sort of insistently infectious grin. He, too, interests himself in politics, as active chairman of the New York State Democratic Theatrical League. The Dowling political loyalty perhaps more than the hygienic merits of Honeymoon Lane, caused New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wire quotable congratulations after viewing the picture. His able campaigning for Governor Smith and Roosevelt, his huge popularity (particularly among Roman Catholics) caused Funnyman Dowling to be mentioned a year ago as a possible candidate for Governor of Rhode Island...
...Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
...Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions...
With the tourists jostling each other for his autograph, St. Gandhi refused them all with a toothy grin and a joke...