Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broad Grin...
...photograph of Johnson. "It's all about you!" shouted Magnuson. Reluctantly, Secretary Johnson took the copy, glanced at the cover and frowned. "Is it favorable?" "Very favorable, sir," replied the Congressman. While reporters & cameramen watched, Secretary Johnson, still frowning, riffled the pages, gradually broke into a broad grin (see cut) as he read TIME'S story on the War Department...
...coast and here-to-there in the U. S. and Europe, Frank Hawks had learned a thing or two about landings. He had cracked many a ship in those 20 years. One in 1921 had cost him $200, one last year, $100,000. Such mishaps he took with a grin. "If you can walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash in 1932 put him in the hospital for months and filled his famous smile with store teeth; in another he somersaulted...
...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...
...compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry, played football, basketball and baseball (captain), charmed the campus by his grin and his singing...