Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...
...form of expression denoting the culmination of some conquest or struggle . . . also the expression of a vicarious triumph. ... It is a phenomenon of triumph. . . . What we generally call laughter is the expression of a coarse emotion which, as culture increases, is reformed to the form of a smile. Smiling, therefore, is not the expression of an opposite emotion, as Professor Aveling avers, but simply a refined and secondary development of laughter...
...Coolidge with a smile, "we get a great deal of mail?even books and magazines if we write for them...
...farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile at Miles...
...blind person of Mrs. Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...