Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal club, in its recent campaign has been the cause of more than one smile, but it has at least treated its subject with serious dignity. It is a violation of the finer feelings of human nature to be forced to associate a letter of the type written by Mr. Hollister with the Harvard men that have died for the true dignity of their country...
...have always tried, however, to have my shows more than mere spectacles and collections of jokes. I like to make an audience laugh loudly and heartily, but I try also to make it smile. I smile is more closely related to the brain than a laugh is. I want to appeal to that part of a man which makes him smile. It means that the man must make some effort of his own. He can't remain just passive...
...causes for these deaths. On them have been prepared general indictments of our whole psychology, philosophy, and social system. Clergymen lay the blame on materialism, lack of religious training, breakdown of family life. Others lay it to incomplete education, as evidence of the dangers of half-knowledge. Freudians smugly smile, and talk of repressions. There is a general "I told you so" air about them all. Whatever way it is regarded, though, the situation seems to cast reflection upon college education...
Said Mrs. Edge with a wise smile: "Not even the Vice President of the United States can smoke his pipe at this dinner table. You smoke a cigaret. You cannot smoke your pipe in this room, until the dinner is over and everybody but yourself has a chance to escape...
Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...