Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...
Seated at his desk, his cigaret holder jutting up at its usual 30° angle, the President gave his answer. Grinning a tired grin, he picked up his reorganization order, whisked through it swiftly...
Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...
...Howard Colwell Hopson could still grin from ear to ear as he boldly taunted a lumbering SEC. Last week the smile and boldness were gone. Ingenious, porcine Howard Hopson, charged with milking his now bankrupt $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric system of $20,000,000 in the biggest utility peculation of all time, went on trial for mail fraud and conspiracy...
...crowd quieted. Would Willkie admit defeat? Was that grin the smile of a defeated man? Willkie began to speak...