Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach your grub, and smile...
...gangplank of a steamer freighted in part with immigrants for deportation. The baby dies on the voyage, and at the landing the tragedy of the girl is conveyed in these words: "This time she would have both hands free to manage her carpet bag." We may be inclined to smile at this as a sublime instance of what an unspoiled hand can do in expressing the last degree of desolation; but the artist must have his praise for a distinguished stroke...
...Earth (the $10,000 Winthrop Ames prize play), of several other long and short plays of beauty and dramatic value, is a kindly lady, born in New Hampshire, living on Pinckney Street, Boston, whose sense of humor is constantly present. Gray-haired, with great dignity, with a constant smile, this woman who gives place to few others in the field of the American short story arrived at a "literary party" recently with a catnip mouse for the cat of the household, "Napoleon...
Your far-off Spanish smile has quite seduced...
...equipped, the piece is prepared to satisfy everyone. You laugh boisterously at the love scene that is wrangled into existence by the heroine in a flood of the most scientific electric light, or you can smile with a graceful superiority, just as you wish. And be it noted that to bring about this double efficiency, the play has been handled well, both in the staging and the acting. The former department was the more notable in its success. The setting in the first scene should be preserved with the simple label, "Decadent American." The inevitable wedding presents, the array...