Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...
...apes fled. One, scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy, 12 to 14 years old. Like a baboon, he chattered, jerked and nodded his head, scratched his body with his forefinger. He had a nervous, baboon-like grin. His quadrupedal gait had caused an abnormal overdevelopment of his haunches...
...head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...
...mood to be wooed, so I wed accept you all if you'd stake me to the license. Give me a ring sometime," he said with a licentious grin...
...blew his way East ten years ago as trumpeter in a jazz band, trumpeted by night so that he could go to art school by day. Soon he began to freelance, has spent most of his time since prowling round Manhattan with a sketchbook. Says he with a grin: "I've got a front-row seat to this life...