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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private, conspicuously weeps, sniffles, gasps, coos, flits and flutters. Having kept three men simultaneously in the air. she nearly breaks up the married man's home before she settles on the producer. In this empty and ungrateful part, her first in straight drama, the gay and knowing smile of Queenie Smith softened the hearts of Manhattan audiences. Famed for her Metropolitan Opera Company dancing, her musicomedy singing. Miss Smith has a sly, twittering charm far too real and well-mannered for the role she had to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini provided the bacon. Until the middle of last week Chancellor Dollfuss would let out no specific word of what occurred last fortnight when II Duce, in a dripping bathing suit, sat in a rowboat with him beyond the beach at Riccione (TIME, Aug. 28). He would only smile rosily at Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rewards | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...When the apes go, so will the British" is another belief to which Gibraltar's polyglot population fondly clings. Sensible Britishers smile tolerantly, take no chances on the apes disappearing. Food for them is a standard item in Gibraltar's colonial budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Apes on a Rock | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Finally the childless husband decides that a baby would be acceptable. Animating this dummy are four of Manhattan's most capable actors: for the childless husband & wife, Ernest Truex and Linda Watkins; for the fertile husband & wife, Glenn Anders and Ruth Weston. Truex's quick, frozen smile and suburban fussiness, Anders' handwringing and close attention to business, Miss Watkins' gentle hysterics, actually produce an evening's entertainment. Manhattan audiences blushed for as much as at such lines as (Anders): "What has happened to our love? I've become just a biological accomplice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Boston, hub of the universe, is famous, among other things for being both a theatrical "graveyard" and a red-headed baseball town. Plays that took New York by storm have come to Tremont St. to wither away like the smile of a Freshman waiting in the Dean's office, while ball teams that have not seen the light of the first division after July 15 in the memory even of a medical student still draw hordes of rabid fans...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

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