Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throw economic wheals off their course to educate the masses into their present economic standard of living than to raise that standard by artificial means." This is the language of a Herald-Tribune editorial. Mr. Bradshaw is disturbed to find the masses squalling. He wants them to grin--and bear it on $27.50 a week...
...best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers; he was out of pocket only $400. Last Sunday, when the New Friends' second season opened, Mr. Hirschmann's grin was even wider. Mayor LaGuardia, District Attorney-Elect Dewey, Simeon Strunsky of the New York Times, as well as many a plain music-lover...
...alchemists. But the raw material for this transmutation was platinum, and the few gold atoms were not worth a fraction of the energy used in manufacturing them, although the electric current necessary to run the cyclotron for an hour costs only $1.50. "Anyway," as Lawrence remarks with a grin, "the information we are getting is worth more than gold...
...clock--The secretaries find themselves touched by the animals' plight. After consultation, they erect a shelter of two umbrellas on the top step to cover the homeless canines, who grin in gratitude...
...dinning hall system. There, coming out after their mid-day duties, were two young ladies whom we recognized as belonging to the Elephant House. One of them was clutching the other to keep from falling, dissolved in gales of laughter. The others face, too, wreathed in a broad grin. We watched for a moment, fascinated. Finally the laughing one sobered...