Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards at a speed which completely belies his 52 years (75 yd. in 8 sec.). Prime product of his teaching was the late famed Florence Mills...
Among the spectators at the demonstration, showing large teeth in a pleased grin, was Designer Albert Adams Merrill of White Plains, N. Y. who studied aero dynamics with Octave Chanute and Samuel Pierpont Langley before the Wright brothers made their first flight. Spare, spectacled, reddish-bearded and red-nosed; partially deaf; clad in a black overcoat and battered brown hat, his unprepossessing figure was like the popular notion of the hardworking, unfamed inventor...
Quite as arresting as such phenomena is phenomenal Charles Fort, who puts such questions with an accusing grin at Science. He is a world's champion professional anti-scientist. For 23 years he has grubbed in museums and libraries for records of occurrences which scientists can explain (thinks Fort) only by ridiculous hypotheses or denial that the occurrences occurred...
Sitting in his convalescent home at Asheville, N. C., ailing Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. fiddles familiarly with the switches of a radio receiver. As he fiddled one day this week a grin of satisfaction crossed his face. He had heard a code message from the Los Angeles headquarters of his company-Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is chief radio engineer (TIME, July 14)-travel across the U. S., relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system...
...should be frequently dropped among newspaper men. Any specially quotable or laugh-getting phrase in the candidate's speeches should be noted for reiteration Newspapers snatch at good little bits for front-page "boxes." Any cartoonable physical characteristics or appurtenances should be emphasized-as were Roosevelt's grin and spectacles, Taft's girth, Dawes's pipe. Smith...