Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is not the exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door-keepers smile in placid obeisance to a higher will; the sound is crushed, and then gone...
...Asked if he approved of Rupert Hughes' views on George Washington (see p. 9), he pointed out of the window behind his desk to the aluminum tip of a white marble obelisk rising 555 ft. 5⅛ in. in the air, 3,000 ft. southward, and with a dry smile remarked: "The monument is still there...
...blow was comparatively a light one to a New Yorker, but Anthony Hope winced. His eyebrows lifted just a little and on his lips rested the enigmatical smile that Leonardo da Vinci immortalized on Giaconda...
...that time the disgruntled groom who had let it get away from him in the first place had ridden up. Edward climbed back over the gate, climbed back upon his own horse and trotted briskly off with his brother, who had watched the proceedings with an amiable and indulgent smile...
...crave no sympathy, but only a pallid smile can respond to the suspicion that . . . Germany . . . can at any visible date . . . set up a war machine...