Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...authors have written for children, but neither jacket nor advertisements give any hint of it. The tale is admirably told for a twelve-year old; it is the kind of children's story that grown-ups might take up covertly and read to the end, with an indulgent smile at the ingenuousness of the book and the foolishness of their own delight...
...nobles grouped themselves about the octagonal throne, King Pracha Tipok, a slim jolly little man, approached with his Queen, whose ample person and wide, placid smile won her much good will when they visited the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924) as Prince and Princess...
...proverb. "Those on whom the gods smile die young" can never blight athletic fortune, for the smiles of gods of sport are much too transient. Nevertheless, even their passing favor is pleasant. And the University may well seize the moment to observe the recent successes of its teams...
...smile may mean a date...