Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert's quiet, amused humor is beyond words refreshing to senses somewhat worn by the boisterous and often raucous jesting of our native humorists. There is much that provokes a smile in these "Rays of Moonshine", and there is no less frequent cause for unrestrained laughter. The book as a whole is peculiarly satisfying. Its contents are imbued with that understanding of the eternal child lurking in every man of any sensitiveness--that understanding which drew from Carlyle the penetrating remark, "Laughter means sympathy". Such laughter Mr. Herbert awakens, such sympathy--sympathy with the human being so situated...
...before the lighted candle. Nowadays we set up artificial evergreens in public parks, and whole communities gather round them to join in the old sings. But behind both waits and communities has always been the same genial, good-fellow feeling; the spirit that buffets shopping-crowds without losing its smile, braves snow and slush for errands of charity, and drains its purse in rival generosity. Whenever man want to express a mood he cannot put in common words, he turns to music and dresses it as a song. The carols are the expression of Christmas; no one can hear them...
...life but their own, and was on the point of handing out a summons when the Elk button on the second chap caught his eye. To the joy and amazement, of the motorists the atmosphere changed at once and the summons was withdrawn with a smile; the guardian of the law was himself...
...must deal concretely with life and must always fold his truth in the veil of beauty. A poem contains truth, but it must contain more than mere truth, it must contain the splendor that is always upon the face of truth, it must contain the beauty that is the smile upon her countenance...
...tradition, we might still attempt to cultivate a slightly more conciliatory manner, to simulate a greater geniality, to handle ourselves in such a way that when some barbarian calls one of us a snob, he can look him in the eye and say: "When you call me that, smile...