Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pride & Prejudice. Tough, affable Grantley Russell, son of a hall porter but now a well-to-do engineer, regards Guiana's caste system with a mocking grin. The only Englishman in the book, he can afford to be tolerant, promiscuous, and amused by the battle of the pigments. "Goo-goo, my high-color belle," he cries, tossing his little daughter Sylvia to the ceiling. "Where do you come into the picture? What's your rating?" Ostracized in her bedroom, shiftless mother Russell sits interminably over her Singer sewing machine and gossips with her "dark" friends about the latest...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
...with one foot in the grave, but the whispers continued to swirl around him. At his press conference, a reporter asked him politely how he was feeling and gave Ike the opportunity to stamp out the plague of rumors-at least temporarily. "Well," said the President with a grin, "I will tell you. As you people know ... I have had sort of a sore elbow which has prevented me from getting my exercise to which I am accustomed, which I think I need, and which I love.* Aside from that, if I am not in good condition, the doctors have...
With easy grace he perched himself atop the back seat of an official car to accept a noisy, ticker-tape welcome from downtown Manhattan. To the crowd of half a million who cheered him, he responded with a wry grin and a wave. When the parade passed into Wall Street, he glanced abound ostentatiously. Said he, in memory of ceaseless Communist propaganda about imperialist Wall Street: "I wanted to see what my 'masters' looked like." At City Hall ceremonies, he turned the talk away from himself by extolling other returned prisoners on the platform with...
With puckish grin and rolling eye, he surveyed the achievements of two years of Tory government. "We are not without some satisfaction," he said, and the understatement got a roar. "Danger is farther away than when we went into harness . . . Recovery will grow surer and firmer as the clattering months roll...