Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spell "Marceline." He would have been accustomed to seeing it in big shiny letters over the entrance to the Hippodrome, biggest Manhattan theatre. The little, inexpressive brown face with the smear of blood would have reminded him of another face, with the same features, set in a foolish pointed smile. He would have recognized the dusty, madly tailored evening clothes that Marceline had taken out of his trunk before he killed himself, as the uniform of the most famous clown since the days of Grimaldi...
...financier. One day "he was torn by the look of a house on whose mean little porch near the street sat a shabby old man of 60, without a coat and reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby little house to read his paper. "A youth...
...Indiana and declined to discuss Indiana's loss and contented himself by saying. "Harvard had the power and once it got the ball was almost certain to score or come mighty near it. But we did." Baker added with a smile, "hold them twice on the two inch line...
...muff his production of Othello. He played an earnest, straightforward Iago, plainly actuated by the motives of desire and jealousy as expounded in English 2, and with no suggestion of satanic depths to his character, except perhaps at the end where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth...
...smile, too, because I knew perfectly well, and the Queen knew that I knew, that the Queen had never heard of Menomonie...