Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bapoo's day of silence, he received the warrant of arrest with a silent nod and smile...
...just arrived in the U. S. (1911) when he met Soprano Alma Gluck. She was standing at the prow of a ferryboat, on her way to sing in New Jersey. Some one spoke to her and she turned around to see Zimbalist standing there with a great wide smile wrinkling up his homely face. For three years thereafter he hung around the Metropolitan Opera stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began...
...entering the world of filmdom, Miss Miller has added little to the old strings in her bow; in the current production at the Fenway Theatre it is the sunny smile, agreeable voice, graceful dancing, and attractive face of old that are used as a basis for the film. Music accompanies the Miller smiles, and a tuneful tango is danced by the heroine in a way that should be a good advertisement for travel in Spain...
Private Lives (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "Certain women should be struck regularly-like gongs." In itself, this is not particularly witty. It is neither an epigram nor a wisecrack and anyone who made it at a dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations...
...bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little girls stand...