Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Mussolini sat in his seat behind his desk which was decorated by flowers presented by admiring Fascisti, head on hand, watching the progress of the fray. Not a muscle moved in his tense body, not a smile parted his compressed lips, not a twinkle appeared in his staring eyes, not a flush suffused his pale face...
...please because it did blow, and the former because he didn't--but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. . . . Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed his plug, and a faint motion of the risible muscles was evident. His composure seems the more remarkable when we consider...
...other bobby is less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile, while the prodder writhes in the last agonies of a pricked balloon...
...doubt, the female-of the species will smile lightly at this brave attempt to refurbish the bristling glory of the cave man. The instinct of vanity in man is too ancient to be uprooted in one generation. Goadod by Colgate's hammering attacks on the hairy face, blinded by the glitter of three-minute safety razors, and drugged by the perfumery of multiplying shaving soap, the helpless male shaves...
...interesting side light on undergraduate indifference to note that the organizations of tife various clubs and societies to which they belong are usually effected without a whimper of protest. They smile pleasantly, say "aye" when they are told to do so: and each votes for the officers that the man next to him puts down. But if for one moment they suspect that someone is trying to force their hand, then chaos reigns and the little demagogues of Government I rise in wrath and howl defiance...