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Word: smiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

With an indulgent but respectful smile their informant explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Nominee Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prof. v. Prof. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Round One. Cornered and isolated from the start, Chancellor Snowden said with a twisted smile: "If the Young Plan could be adopted by majority vote, I suppose it would be carried today, but fortunately adoption must be unanimous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden v. Europe | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...most expensive smile in the city's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hobson's Choice | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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