Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly in many of these cases the Deans will hand back the reports with a smile, and proceed to settle the questions in hand just as if there were no such thing as Student Advisors. By the same token, many of the Advisors themselves will have had to report on Freshmen whom they have seen only once, whom they have found uncommunicative, whom they know exceedingly little about. These reports will of course be of little practical value...
Considering that an appreciable, though by no means threatening portion of New England industries has moved to the newly energetic Piedmont section of North & South Carolina, this item in last week's New England News Letter ("booster" periodical) suggested a thin smile, wry yet polite...
...soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...
...paunchy, baldheaded, double-chinned man, whose trousers seem never to have been pressed, smiled the smile of vindication. He, Roy Asa Haynes, bright morning star of the Anti-Saloon League from Hillsboro, Ohio, had suffered two years of nearly total eclipse. Last week President Coolidge had him appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner, under the new re-organization act. For four years after President Harding appointed » him Federal Prohibition Commissioner he held the center of the Prohibition Enforcement stage; since April, 1925, when General Lincoln C. Andrews became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, he has danced through...
Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...