Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor as a church mouse," said he. flashing a toothless smile, "I have nothing for you. Beside I don't want to bribe you for performing a mere public duty...
...Governor General Dwight Filley Davis had proclaimed a national holiday. With Vice Governor General George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary of War came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
...delivered half the Oklahoma delegation to Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City convention and helped mightily to carry the State for the Republican presidential nominee. When in 1929 President Hoover asked him if he would serve as Assistant Secretary of War, "Pat" Hurley flashed his warm Irish smile and replied: "Mr. President, I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get that office." When the Hurleys arrived in Washington they were so overawed by the capital's society that they used to practice their entrances and exits at a mirror before dining...
...clearheaded, she was taken to Georgetown University Hospital where surgeons ordered an emergency operation for a serious intestinal obstruction. By plane and train from Wisconsin to Washington sped her devoted sons Senator Robert Marion and Governor Philip Fox La Follette. They arrived just in time to get a flickering smile of loving recognition from their mother before she slipped quietly away from them forever. Too late was her daughter Fola, wife of Dramatist George Middleton, hurrying east from Santa Monica. Of all the tributes evoked by the death of Widow La Follette none was more appreciated by her family than...
...good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled off contentedly...