Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...emotion. But as I watched him I was astonished. What was he laughing at? He was singing and playing as though his heart were breaking, and he was grinning as though he had seen something funny. And the darker and more beautiful his singing became, the wider that joking smile grew. I had always thought that I, myself, was as humorous a wight as anyone, but I knew that if I were out there singing that tragical music I wouldn't be grinning all over the place...
...must be admitted that most of the graduate contributions lead one to believe that the quondam editors are no longer in their element. This is only to be expected. Years of change both in the manner of inducing the smile, and in the graduates themselves are bound to make a difference. But there was one guest at the dinner, who pictures himself flying to Boston to Russian leaps, completely at one with the work he had to do. Of course Mr. James Montgomery Flagg is old in the ways of his craft. But he needed all his cunning to strike...
...coming out from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought of Lord Grey's letter." Or an interview with Foch 'during the dangerous German drive of 1918: "General Foch, before answering, took a few whiffs from his 2? cigar and looked at me with a smile of quiet confidence in his bright brown eyes. 'They won't break through,' he said, and the words were as percussive as pistol shots...
...story of the old Scotchwoman from whom all his efforts could not draw a smile, who later said, "What a time I had to keep from laughing at him!" was one of many others which made waves of laughter alternate with moments of deep attention throughout the speech...