Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott: " Suave but murderous dialogue in which the opposing characters are hating each other bitterly and doing it with a smile...
...this man ... I will say little; the subject presents few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man nor are you, gentlemen the men to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness and systematic villainy. It is difficult to smile with an aching heart?it is ill jesting when our deepest sympathies are awakened. My client's prospects are ruined. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed . . . while his mother weeps...
...such ardent devotees. No praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse with a smile, and, if the latter overwhelm them, can still smile--and try again. Delicately, and with a wonderfully sympathetic understanding Mr. Barry reveals to us Maitland White's tragedy--the tragedy of the artist who rejects his calling in favor of marriage and business, and realizes his mistake too late. The fact...
...this would bid fair to become dry moralizing were it not, as has been said, for the author's graceful sly humor and intense humanity. He is smiling all the time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed...
Despite the fact that official receptions, guards of honor, tiresome speeches were absent, crowds, camera men, newspaper reporters (male and female), official personages acting in " unofficial " capacity abounded. He was received enthusiastically by thousands of Quebecians and many a camera snapped his famed smile...