Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...Minister, obedient to the wishes of King George, paid a visit to Buckingham Palace. For 40 minutes he conversed with the British Sovereign and when, at the end of that time, he emerged between the high iron gates of the Palace, his chin and cheeks cleanly shaved, a wide smile lit his sallow countenance. From then on, everybody took it as a matter of course that his visit was bound to be successful...
...Barclay's visit was called "unofficial." Asked if he had come to negotiate a loan, he replied with a smile: "No, we do not need to borrow money from the United States just now, but later, perhaps, a loan may be asked for to develop the railroad system...
...sermons, too, are famed; for he is a man both erudite-he reads one book through nearly every night in bed-and human His smile is merry. He has no cynicism in him. He has no use for pink tea preachers. His sermons by radio have gone far and wide. He looks upon preaching as a form of crusading...
...having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave and beat him across the line. Grimly he twisted his barnacle, fixed upon his features his professionally smile, repeated mechanically: "I will try again...