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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War in its Sudanese and Kurdish aspects serves as background in "The Last Outpost" for a touching love problem. It apparently wasn't much of a war anyhow: a few people do get killed, but they are mostly the enemy and it's all done with a smile. How Cary Grant happened to want to marry Gertrude Michael, his nurse in a Cairo hospital, is not made clear--apparently he was just born that way. He did nevertheless; but the situation was complicated by the reappearance of her long lost husband, who really wasn't such a bad fellow...

Author: By J. A. S. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/26/1935 | See Source »

Kissed by the sunny approval of summer audiences at Locust Valley this past July, Joseph Kesselring's "There's Wisdom in Women" presents its sophisticated smile for a week's run at the Colonial before it ambles on to New York. The Playgoer's more serious colleagues of the Boston press have not liked Mr. Kesselring's offering and it is with the double pleasure of aloneness that he raises his humble voice in approval. The Playgoer enjoyed "There's Wisdom in Women" and he thinks that, with the exception of the worthies of the fourth estate...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rumor of Marconi's Micro-Wave Machine, Capable of Frustrating Ethiopian Aviators, Makes Scientists Smile | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

...quiniet of giggle ettes frina past Leavitt's their generous forms rivalled only by the generality of their smile. A seasoned Harvardian looks up, perceives, and turns into Liggett's screne in the knowledge that less-knowing classmates are secure against such sirens, the guardian watching is over alert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champion of Righteousness Frustrated as petty-Wigs Hem Him to Curbstone | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

...quite less Freshman are being led away by the giggle ettes. These pretty ones loss a smile of triumph and scorn to the watchdog, champion of all that is food and righteous and respectable, but hemmed to the curb by the cars of political petty wigs who know not what they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champion of Righteousness Frustrated as petty-Wigs Hem Him to Curbstone | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

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