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Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidents Lowell and Conant have been on speaking terms with the proprietor of the shine parlor-newsstand strategically set on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener's back door. Felix Caragianes is not the commonplace sort of man you would expect to find commanding a battery of bootblacks: in the wide grin behind his horn-rimmed spectacles there is a contagious adolescent exuberance which has put the purchase of a morning paper on a personal basis for a generation of the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

...cradles suspended on pulleys; the pigs and chickens slept underneath it. Always, "two inseparable guardian angels" looked down from the bedroom wall: "on one side was the black, scowling face ... of the Madonna of Viggiano; on the other . . . the sparkling eyes, behind gleaming glasses, and the hearty grin of President Roosevelt. ... Sometimes a third image formed, along with these two, a trinity: a dollar bill . . . was tacked up [between the Madonna and the President] like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the World of the Dead | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...sharp eye have taken enough time off from study to form some definite ideas on that fertile ground for catticism, the Harvard man. "He may be a student first and a college man second, but he certainly knows how to handle himself on a date," she opines with a grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vassar Girl, No Xenophobe, Chooses Widener Over Yale | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

Slowly the Russian walked around his charges and approached the couple. Slowly a grin covered his face. He tapped the woman on the back. She shuddered. Rigid apprehension spread over the faces of the onlookers, but the Russian rumbled soothingly: "Keine Angst. Keine Angst." (No fear. No fear.) Then he waved the muzzle of his Tommy gun toward the prisoner, who instinctively recoiled a step, and asked: "Dein Mann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Beyond Understanding | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...little, thin man with a round face, a blinding grin, and white pop-eyes, who seldom appears without a handkerchief in his left hand, kept an impatient audience waiting twenty extra minutes at Symphony Hall last Friday night while he practised his trumpet scales. Then, when he finally appeared, and the band swung through a loud and brassy and the band swung through a loud and brassy "Stompin' At The Savoy" it became clear that Louis Armstrong, at forty-seven, was still a vibrant, entrancing stage personality with a beautifully phrased trumpet and a voice that had lost none...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz: | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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