Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Slattery, with his smile of a contemptuous faun, came two-stepping toward the weaving, crouching Shade, spectators averted their eyes. They hoped Slattery understood enough of mercy to be quick about his business. In the first round, Shade actually managed to hit him lightly, on the jaw. Slattery seemed puzzled. In the second round, there was another flurry from Shade. Slattery was obviously taking his time to get the range. In the third round, Shade crouched lower. He came out of his corner almost on his belly. From this position he started a blow which began in the resin...
...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
None pleased; the galleries liked the men from the U. S.?big MacDonald Smith, Joe Kirkwood with the curling smile, Jim Barnes, a long, dour man of little talk and less laughter. Before, behind, around these, the populace of that part of Scotland rowdily trailed, pushing prams, spilling lunch baskets. It was a nuisance to the police and the players...
...course record, then holed two more fours to scuttle Westland, 9 and 7. Such golf as Lamprecht's would have caused comment in a national tournament. Soon it may, for Champion Lamprecht is an older college man than most (some years ago he attended Cornell), and his perpetual smile betokens a golfing disposition...
Women's Western. Rain-sopped women stood waiting in the Riverside Country Clubhouse (Riverside, 111.). Entered to them a dusky-haired, comely young woman choking back a smile. The gathering chuckled, cackled, congratulated the young woman, then stood quiet while a chairwoman gave her a tall, slender silver cup. That night the young woman, Mrs. Silvan L. Reinhart (nee Elaine Rosenthal), of Hubbard Woods, Ill., discussed with her husband, "Spider" Reinhart, onetime Yale end, the ups, downs, ins and outs whereby she had successfully defended her Women's Western Golf Championship, through rain and wind, against a field...