Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smile with which "Dear Brutus" had once captured gay New York--and then--"But, my dear, you know, I was acting away for all I was worth when I looked around and the curtain had come down. One can not always "strut his hour" not on a Boston stage." The severest critic retreated...
Daniel Willard, 65, has that beaming grandfatherly smile. He cannot help it; he has much about which to be happy. He is president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and one of the best loved executives in the nation. As head of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University, he is the mainspring of its present reorganization and expansion program. Once he said: "There is romance in this business. . . ." He referred to railroads, but he might well have been thinking of his early Vermont farmhood...
...onetime Farmer Willard rather than present day Railroader Willard who talked to a congress of farm boys and girls in Chicago last week. True enough, he did mention railroads and urged the youths to acquaint themselves with national affairs, but his smile was mellowest when he told of farmhood. Said...
...Constant Wife. And what have the privations of monogamy to do with wifely constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love...
...weeks before the hour of his death, "Paddy" Car smiled the smile of a big and happy Irishman, as he listened to the returns that elected him Sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) by a plurality of 125,000, the largest given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover...