Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...words rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...
...Garfield's smile was gone when he said ominously: "Men of good will and high purpose [at official parleys, such as the current one at Geneva] are striving with might and main for that which is good, but their councils are menaced. They are opposed by the sinister attitude of unworthy men. With bated breath we watch. Is good will to prevail or envy, hatred and malice? White the conferees meet and the world waits, brooding fear hovers in the background. . . . In any republic worthy of the name, its citizens must be eternally vigilant...
...young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck, showing the Marchesa Lommelini, a 17th...