Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supper club on a sound basis, minding their business for them. It's disgraceful. Coolidge is right at the center of this. He has always been that way. Waits until the time comes when there's only one place to jump and then jumps in that place with the smile of one who has planned a surprise. The only difference this time is that the water is over his head. And then there isn't good enough mountain to name Calvin Coolidge Hump or Mt. Calvin in my state? It isn't right, ladies and gentlemen I think...
...time some Harvard men invited me to dinner," he continued with a reminiscent smile. "They all lined up in front of me and the spokesman delivered his speech...
...Beethoven in Valhalla might smile a trifle bitterly to see his earthly origin made so much of. Immortals, he might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France...
...plays fair, it will remain a pleasure for me to receive my weekly copy. I note that some subscribers take exception to things you say about their "pet" ideas. You have rapped my Organization several times but this has not changed my opinion of TIME. In such cases I smile at your mistakes and misunderstanding and wait for the time to arrive when you will know facts. You can rest assured that TIME has a great future before it and will continue to build up a first class list of subscribers...
...myself and other boys of my age, whether American or German-how proud we were when privileged merely to see his venerable form when he might be walking in the park. But when we were so fortunate as to catch his eye and have our salutation returned with a smile of ineffable charm, then our joy knew no bounds and we ran home to brag about it." Amused commentators recalled that while Wilhelm I was known as Der Greise Kaiser, "The Aged Emperor," his grandson Wilhelm II won by his incessant gadding about Europe the nickname Der Reise-Kaiser...