Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High in Montmartre, one Frisco le Nègre presides as the epitome of sinewy darkness over white folks' revels. His wide infectious smile brims with the elements of primeval mirth. Last week he welcomed many a world-famous guest to Mitchell's, a noted Parisian variant of the blackamoor nightclubs of Harlem, New York City...
Finally pressmen sought out James Pershing, brother of John, at his office in the Straus Building, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. James regarded the questioners with a quizzical smile: "My brother let his teeth go without attention for some time, as one will. ... I suppose that his general condition too may have been weakened by the oppressive climate of Tacna-Arica, of which he has often spoken. ... I feel sure that my brother's condition is not actually alarming...
That a lashing with knotted cords, wielded by women, is funny will never occur to the Priest of Bonbon. For it was he who was thus scourged. But set in the headlines of the New York World, this bit of medieval calisthenics requires a civilized smile at the futility of ancient tortures...
...Significance. Observers were inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between...
...Manhattan Senegalese who went to gaze at their murdered idol remembered creditable things of Battling Siki. They remembered how during the War he was mustered into the French Army-an ebony-muscled bully-boy of 18, with a jungle smile and an arm like an ironwood tree. He was given a musket with a long knife on the end of it and told to do thus and so to all who wore a certain uniform. Siki grasped his instructions so capably that, although wounded with shrapnel and bay- onets, he won the Croix de Guerre, two palms, Medaille Militaire, seven...