Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour of Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary Primo Camera paused in the yard, raised his monstrous arms over his head, clasped his hamlike hands, smiled a tusky smile in greeting to Prisoner Alphonse Capone. Up behind a second floor window Prisoner Capone returned the gestured greeting, hopped up & down excitedly, pressed his nose to the pane to watch the heavyweight champion amble out of sight...
...convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...very good subject, a very willing sitter. All told we had about eight sittings. . . . Sometimes he received callers during the sittings, but I liked that. It made for a more natural expression. He was really very patient about it." As originally painted the portrait bore the famed Roosevelt smile. The President would have none of it, demanded that the smile be wiped off. So Mrs. Rand painted a new straight-lipped mouth which nobody seemed to like. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt went in to view the portrait wearing its third mouth. "Oh! I like it very much!" she cried. Then...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
...Philadelphia Orchestra. The players greeted him politely but on many a stony face was a look of dark suspicion. They were tired of guest conductors and this one was a pianist. But José Iturbi also used to be a boxer and he would not be glared down. He smiled a disarming smile and set the musicians to work with the authority of their own Stokowski.*Before the rehearsal was half over every last one of them knew, that the little Spaniard on the podium meant business...