Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placements came my way every time. I tried to drive her back with lobs, but both she and the Baron slaughtered one after another. He hit so hard he bent his racket. ... At the end, Suzanne threw the balls into the stands, rushed to the net with that fixed smile of hers and gave me a handshake, a clammy one. . . . C. F. was great! He tried to take all the blame...
...somewhat insignificant appearance forced him to assume a stern expression in public. When asked to smile by photographers, he invariably snapped: "I cannot smile, because there is nothing to smile at." A frugal man, he said: "Western people eat too much. One of their meals would last me a week...
...fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite as that caused by a series of musical chords. They smile down forever from his rich canvas?the Cosmic Egg cooked at last, the fried ova of eternity. This celebrated picture has been seen before in Manhattan. It was exhibited there again last week at the opening of the trinational exhibition of the painting and sculpture of France, England...
...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...
...interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule, was in the chair, and Mr. Borah exclaimed: "I trust the Senator from Alabama observed the broad smile on the face of the Vice President." Senator Blease, whom able Democratic correspondent Frank R. Kent describes as "the supreme political patent-medicine man," was very frank in proclaiming his position : "Mr. President, something has been said about a filibuster. I do not know that I exactly understand what that...