Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the red house on Sparks...
...hospital you will be surprised, in the first scene, to see a roomful of internes rush off the stage as though the devil had them by the coat tails when it is announced that a patient with lacerated wrists has been brought into the emergency ward. You may smile when, in the second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock...
...thin, baggy-eyed oldster into his press conference. To surprised newshawks Secretary Hull warmly continued: "I think most of you know our new Assistant Secretary of State whom we are fortunate enough to get into the Department-Judge Moore." "Judge" Moore's long face wrinkled into a pleasant smile. He made a stiff little bow, drawling: "Gentlemen - er- er- good morning. I consider it a privilege to be associated with Secretary Hull. We served together for years in the House, a long and delightful association which I am glad to renew." Correspondents did not miss the genuine cordiality between...
...including himself, wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week. He too has foreign followers. His Madeline Slade is a Miss Helen Topping, who notes down everything he says. Rare is the Kagawa day that does not begin with...
...passing of Ring Lardner stills another beloved but misunderstood voice. Mr. Lardner, like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips...