Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begins to decay, it becomes matted with God-webs." Joad's own mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that could be cured by socialism, progressive schools and psychoanalysis. He now says with a grin: "In that view, a world of adequately psychoanalyzed Communists would be the millennium...
...best way to get a cheap call, though, is to spin pennies in the nickel slot." With a smug grin on his face and a tone of confidence in his voice, he explained that "the penny bounces over the coin return slot...
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned...
...time the congress convened, the welcome smile was a frozen grin. At a luncheon for the correspondents, Vladimir Topencharov, Assistant Foreign Minister and Press Director, lectured the visiting firemen on their lack of "objectivity." Their sin: they had reported that the inevitable "spontaneous" demonstration hailing the congress appeared to have been pretty well organized beforehand...
Besides, he adds with the sly grin that heralds one of his frequent puns: "Agents are salesmen. I am a sakes-man. I play for the sake...