Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
Though each of these items was important, Number 2 seemed most important to Governor Bilbo. "I will push the passage of this measure," he cried "and will not smile upon any other until it has been passed...
...possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...
...woman could travel from one end of this country to the other without meeting with discourtesy or insult--now it appears, even Mr. Auburn Street is not wholly safe. No one perhaps wants to go back to the days of "that's fighting talk" and "When you say that, smile", but there are certain obligations which the male still, if one be at all old fashioned, owes the gentler...
...Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...