Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seeing a striking portrait of Dr. Peabody in the studio of Frederick P. Vinton. The painting, although not wholly completed, presents an excellent likeness, a fine effect having been produced by a broad light which gives his features a marked expression. The reverend Dr. is seated, a smile upon his face, with one hand partially extended, as it were in conversation...
...behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when the old doctor comes in sight, trying to steal unseen through some open space. Applause and shouting bring the doctor to a stop. The bright, strong face lights up with a happy smile, the white head bows to the youthful top-knots, and the slight, straight figure, bearing very easily the weight of seventy-five long years, tries to steal away again. But it won't do. The boys must have a speech, and the doctor submits. How he brightens and sparkles...
...York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had an enemy, nor ever was for an hour the object of ill will. And yet the boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak, in Chancellor Crosby's place at the chapel desk, was always the signal for an outburst of applause. While he was reading the morning lesson, the students marked every emphasized word with a universal and simultaneous stamp...
...stared vacantly at me. and seemed puzzled. Finally she gave me a faint smile and said half confidentially, "O, you musn't think I care for Homer so much. Of course when I 'went in' for classics, I had to read him a good deal, and so had the other girls, but I don't think any of us cared much about it. As long as we could get through it somehow and pass, the rest didn't matter...
...Professor. "It doesn't give us 'X;' it gives us 'y.'" And from that hour, Prof. Newton looked upon Mr. Phelps as a mathematical prodigy. He was the first man who had ever caught the Professor tripping. "And so," Mr. Phelps used often to add, with his own peculiar smile in telling the story, "I achieved a reputation for knowing a thing I hate. It's the way many reputations are made in this superficial world...