Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parker Butler once informed his readers "Pigs is Pigs.'' Your abstractor is guilty of too literal translation from the German (or Norwegian) and has derived porpoises from Meerschweinchen, probably by way of sea pigs. This error is not unheard of, but should make the little guinea pig smile...
...with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking. As much to his surprise as to anyone else's he was elected...
...With a smile that was childlike and bland Chiang Kaishek, famed first President of the Nationalist Government, arrived in Nanking last week. A thousand chastened members of the Kuomintang party assembled to welcome him. Only six weeks ago these same men forced him to resign the Presidency. He left and his opponents shouted to the winds that they were heartily glad...
...hands. Blandly ignoring the human equation, they graphically describe the birth of various abortive Utopias, most of which are by the Russian Revolution out of the American Constitution. They modestly admit that the child may not be perfect, but nevertheless compare it to the existing regime with a complacent smile...
...open a California agency under J. C. Van Eck (who then spoke little English) he was made the Dutchman's assistant. In San Francisco today he is a popular socialite, president of the San Francisco Golf Club. He is still kittenish with the Press but his famed smile has been known to sell many a barrel...