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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Nearly a year ago, short, sturdy, smile-flashing Frank Hawks forswore his 20 years of headlong, rough-&-tumble aviation, became vice president of the Gwinn Company, and shuttled around Eastern airports showing what the Gwinn airplane could do. But even in such a head-over-heels endorsement as his Nutmeg contribution, Hawks had felt constrained to set down one big but. "Birds," he reminded the Nutmeg's readers, "are the only ones who never fail to make a perfect landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hawks's End | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...company again in the next four years. A fearful good evening to you." He started back, rebuttoning his coat. He stopped and turned. "I hope it doesn't rain," he said, and for an instant some ray of light escaped the darkness of the Yard and trapped a smile on his face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...settle down for a heart-to-heart chat, in the course of which, touching on the subject of museums. Axel enlarges on the reverence called forth by relics of the past. When Marie Antoinette says, "Do you think-one hundred years hence-some Swedish gentleman wandering in Paris may smile over a relic of Marie Antoinette's, a miniature perhaps, or a ring?" the count agrees politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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