Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly, surprisingly the heartbreaking tension snapped, as Il Capo smiled his peculiarly magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...
What the dying Empress whispered in reply could not be heard, but she managed to smile in farewell, and the big Cossack was led away by her physician, sobbing like a broken-hearted child. Present when Death came were the Empress's daughters, Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Xenia; with the latter's son Prince Vessli, members of the Danish Royal Family, and lastly Prince Dolgouriki, grizzled Major Domo, lifelong friend, faithful servitor...
Packard v. Ford. If you possess or know any one who possesses a Dos-A-Dos (an electric automobile seating four per- sons, back to back, manufactured by the Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might...
...other hand there is a certain admirable insouciance in the attitude, not wholly unrelated to that of Nero's fiddle-act, nor to the carefree independence of the man who fell asleep during Smith's inaugural address. And it will be a crusty gentleman indeed who cannot smile at the "Whispering Campaign" or "The Little White House in the East." It will be an even blinder" one who cannot find the connection between the figure of New York's first famous citizen and the face of her latest, so ably combined on the cover. The parody of Kipling...
...sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that Jix addressed "the gaping Ayrshire yokels." That's a fine sentence. I hae nae doot the chap that wrote it read it twice or oftener, and smile't at his ain smertness. I widna say but he compare't himsel (muckle tae his ain advantage) wi' that Ayrshire yokel, Rabbie Burns. Rabble's fairly weel ken't the day in the literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared...