Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such, but Mr. Chief Justice hears that his onetime party's Nominee "probably has the largest mind in America" and is a "planetary thinker." No opinion is required of the High Bench on these matters. When he hears of Hooverism and the Brown Derby, Mr. Chief Justice can smile, chuckle. He can point to his "dent" and lend his now almost universally admired bumps to the law, which follows sedately, a decade or more, behind politics...
Insidious persons, continued "Jix," are proposing even to regulate the number of a man's children by law. "I cannot," said Sir William with a wry smile, "I cannot help feeling rather for the father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed...
...written a series of letters one of which she would receive every year on her birthday. Last week, Jane Gray received the first of these letters. Newsgatherers wished to know its contents but Jane Gray refused to tell them. Whatever the letter said, it caused her to smile last week, on her eleventh birthday, as she read...
...cemetery went George's body, while to the 20th Century went Al. Crowds . . . Paul ... a boy . . . and again, a smile...
...entire bankroll, $327,000, on a horse and won. Sometimes he made book, sometimes he bet against the bookmakers. He had a staff of scouts and dockers but not infrequently he bet against the information they brought him. Stocky, grey-haired, he used to watch the races with a smile on his face, saying nothing. Horses he liked to bet on best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous; he got his nickname from...