Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death is grim, but Thomas R. Marshall was never grim. If there was ever a baby born with a smile on its face, it must have been he. It was 71 years ago last March that his smile came into the world. Last week, it flickered out for the last time...
Hall choruses will sing almost in tune; so will various players in the two huge orchestras. Speakers will try in vain to make themselves heard; so will be chaperones. A few upperclassmen will break in; the rest will stay at home and smile...
...Larry (rapping for order)--Knights of the Greasy Spoon and Lady of the even more Greasy Spoon (with a smile and gallant bow to Georgie Anne), shall we admit Paymore to the rights and privileges of our illustrious order, the Amalgamated Association of Alimental Assassins...
...spoke to the disturbed Council, the smile of humor was on her mouth, the light of reason in her eyes. An apology was due, she said, for the discourtesy of a few U. S. women to the visiting delegates. The War frightened some U. S. women and they have not recovered: "They especially fear two institutions from there [Europe], the League of Nations and Soviet Russia." These are equal in menace to the security of this Nation. They believe the League is framed "to disarm the nations," to prepare the way for "a mighty army from the north, carrying...
...other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...