Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...days later, Governor Langer went to Fargo to be sentenced by Judge Miller. The Law had not changed its mind. William Langer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, $10,000 fine. Taking the sentence with a smile, he planned to file an appeal...
While John Speculator was grumping over the summer listlessness of the stock and commodity markets last week, John Investor was finding plenty to make him smile. Into his lap dropped $800,000,000 in quarterly and semi-annual dividends and bond interest due on or about July i. Chrysler Corp. paid him 25? per share plus an extra 25?. National Lead paid him $1.25, Eastman Kodak, $1, Montgomery Ward Class A, $1.75, Coca Cola, $1.50. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank added $10 to its regular dividend of $6 while First National Bank was paying its customary...
...libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...
...directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...