Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: ... It might not be amiss here to enlighten you as to who you were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity...
...Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John Jacob, against quiet David, 15, a bit self-conscious in his natty new long pants. "Smile, Jakey," said Lady Astor. Reporters quizzed. She answered graciously: No, Phyllis did not drink. Yes, the English liked Will Rogers. No, she was not going to bring Phyllis up as a typical girl. She loathed typical people, despised 100-percenters of any nationality. Yes, she liked the modern girl...
...Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
...wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...
...French statesmen are more genuinely beloved. While his fellows clawed and slashed their bitter tscandal-strewn way to power, Gaston Doumergue disarmed his enemies and heartened his friends with a smile, proved by daily application his notable if not transcendent abilities, and was happily wafted up to the Presidency...