Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a much more homely and rational explanation. With the Business School so new-and-all there is a lack of telephone service, to the annoyance of the students. The telephone company, pitying the case of the men unreasonably deprived of the voice with a smile, has installed two pay-telephones on two telephone-poles across the street...
...staircase of the Royal Palace accompanied by their wives who wore the frumpy white "court dresses" prescribed by Swedish etiquet. Only the ladies of the royal party 'itself were attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal Printzkiold...
ALIGHT, whimsical story of a kind-hearted big butter and egg man is this latest of Mr. Hargraves' novels. It is easy reading; entertaining, amusing, but of course, lacking in depth. It doesn't make you think, but it does make you smile. If that is what you are looking for, we recommend "And Then Came Spring" heartily...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
...idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing in the theatre. He detests being described as "whimsical." Yet that adjective better than any other, perhaps, describes the art that is making enthusiastic audiences smile and sigh these fall evenings at the Booth Theatre...