Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later Las Chiquitas, San Pablo, Dolores, Santa Delicates, Los Angeles, Carmen and La Trinidad joined their joyous tintinnabulation to the grave duet of Dona María and Santa María. The wrinkled face of the little old man in the west tower spread into a wide, happy grin...
Bartender William Damrau, of nearby Teaneck, just pondered his business life ("All a bartender gets is headaches"), his home life ("My wife squawked bloody murder"), and his $40,000 with the same triumphant grin...
...satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
...Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really...
...only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...