Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With lightning, devastating wit that made the Chamber roar with laughter and blunted M. Marin's attack, M. Briand shot back, "So you see me smiling in my mustache, M. Marin? Helas, I could not smile in yours...
Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to Paris from a brief Russian junket. Said he: "The people in the streets all walk quickly with grave, preoccupied faces; they do not smile. If they bump into each other they do not apologize. ... In Moscow the Opera is magnificent. . . . Every department is perfect. ... It alone seems to have escaped from politics, for the repertoire is the same as before the War. Children's theatres, which receive special government attention, are nothing but propaganda centres. In one I saw what were represented as aristocratic Red Cross nurses refusing to give common...
...wholly and openly condone it. The receptions are always bad. Everyone tells lies about the groom and trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids its no fun at all. And the Vagabond has never been able to decide whether "For better...
Humor is not lacking in mild forms. George Biddle, in a light composition entitled "Bringing Home the Cows" has contributed a highly entertaining piece. "Lohengrin" by Adolph Dehn will raise a smile, while his other lithograph, "Pont St. Michel" is a really striking piece of work, containing a great deal of feeling...
Admitted the professor last week, with a smile at himself: "I should never have dared to operate if I had known that the apparent blister was a cardiac aneurism. The diagnosis was wrong, the operation successful...