Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every smile-raising writer, from Dickens to Wodehouse, would envy Author Waugh many a scene, many a character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must...
...longer despair, having taught the boys at least to buy a hat and keep it on the floor for fancy weekends. To be sure, brown hats don't soil as fast as gray. The Paris Garter people are launching with a wry smile their million-dollar "Attack on the barbarous challenge of nudism...
...nice new radiators in Eliot House. Last winter during the could snap there was much complaint among the Elephants of ill-heated rooms due to icy radiators and the Maintenance Department has in the fullness of time takes there strong measures to keep the Pachyderms warm. It has also smiled its paternal smile on the chilly Lowell House men to the tune of 55 radiators...
...freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
...Block, we have a free Press!" replied II Duce with what his visitor described as "a smile of great kindness." Then thoughtfully the Dictator added: "Of course when a writer attacks the Government in a way we know to be harmful to the people, then we call his attention to it. Yes, we call his attention...