Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Under THE PRESS (TIME, Dec. 13) the article on Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker caused us to smile again-and to chuckle too, for a second time. . . Your news item is three years late, as we know it. ... TIME is usually ahead of that record-so we'll not deliver unto you-such as you deliver, or send to your staff, one of your "thoroughgoing rebukes. . . ." Here is the copy of one of the Musa-Shiya advertisements referred to above: This very nice advertisement Onnounce Out of Musa Shiya the Shirtmaker (Also Many Dry Good Selling) Foulard This croth...
Chicagoans who like nothing better than a good noisy demonstration at "the depot" had a splendid one last week. In came a train bearing a burly moose of a man with hands, feet and a smile which any politician might envy. And that was what he was, a politician, onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, now chairman of the Illinois waterways commission. He had come from Washington and when the brass bands had followed him to a hotel he shouted, "Let them come...
...reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...
...School, are lasting monuments. With them his name will always be connected. But there is another aspect of his contribution to the intellectual and the spiritual life of his day and of our day, that boasts no such imperishable testimonials. Those human things that caused it, his smile and his grave placidity, his honesty and his courage, his unerring appreciation of human values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful...