Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge: (Something inaudible, which made the Nominee smile...
German steel makers, last week, had cause to smile at reports, emanating from the U. S., of a proposed combine to control U. S. iron and steel exports...
Come on, let us smile...
...smile that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
Then (so the story goes), Senator Borah's smile vanished. "What the hell is the matter with you?" he cried. "Have you all gone crazy? I don't know much about politics, but evidently I know a thousand times more than Hoover! What do you want to do, crucify us all in November...