Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book she had been reading five minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...
...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...
...made veiled reference to "Valley Forge ... a dreamer ... a man with a great vision. . . ."At last it became apparent who the man was. The audience cheered and clapped when a little white-haired clergyman, looking for all the world like a sly puppy, gave an uncertain, embarrassed smile, got up from his chair, tiptoed toward the centre of the stage, and took the ivory box. The little clergyman was the Rev. Dr. William Herbert Burk. He had been awarded the Bok Prize for founding and forwarding the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...
...produce? The sketches also struck a responsive chord in me--particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn