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Word: grinningly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Wickersham whiskers curled into a grin as their wearer replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unborn Blossom | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Greatest of European tiremakers is Andre Michelin et Cie., which in 1929 for the first time in its history showed a deficit of 8,000,000 francs. But it would take more than that to shrink the grin on the rubber face of "Bibendum," famed Michelin trademark mannikin (see cut). Last week Bibendum's grin spread to the faces of 700 former employes of the Michelin plant in Milltown, N. J. Depressed business forced the closing of the plant three months ago. To the employes was due $700,000 from an accumulative yearly bonus which the company paid them under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bibendum Bonus | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...Whale exhibits to perfection Lord Beaverbrook's famed "flat grin." The lady under the bonnet is not Queen Mary, who is only supposed to wear such frights, but "Lucy" (Mrs. Stanley Baldwin) who actually wears them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Again Noah; Again Whale | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

With a sly grin, Mr. Snowden accepted the challenge: "We have been in session now nine hours and have finished one clause," said he. "The sitting will continue until we have dealt with nine more clauses, until we reach Clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snowden's Waterloo | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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