Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted by the Papal Guard...
...melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile is on the other side of its mouth. Instead of using Balkan disorders as matches to kindle European war fires, it uses them as flares to light the way to a more effective peace in Europe...
...When You Smile is a middling musical comedy without any noted personalities. Two or three excellent melodies and general dancing help. It is not very funny...
Free Service? A flapper with twelve one-dollar-bills and a rouged smile should not be entitled to a fancy checkbook, according to banker C. W. Allendoerfer of Kansas City, who fulminated against the length to which "free service" is being carried by banks. He declared that country correspondents who want theatre tickets bought for them should be humored; but that a line must be drawn somewhere. Accounts must be examined to discover whether they are really profitable...
...these eventually joined the able tutorial staff formed with Harris, by sauve, swarthy Samuel, who has always remained the driving power of their educational projects. His brisk, confident speech, the quick movements of his chunky body, the very sheen of his black hair and the flashing smile on his wide mouth, gave an impression of prime mental masculinity that has attracted colleagues and stimulated faltering students. "Here," say the latter, "is a man who makes molehills of mountains. He is swift, sure, knows what is wanted. Though warmhearted, he is cold-blooded toward examinations. He spots them, stabs them...