Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will always be men like him, with a smattering of knowledge and a nice smile and a guardian angel keeping them out of trouble, but they cannot be counted upon. Research, scientific investigation and free inquiry will have to go on, even if a mischievous Dame Fortune rewards the undeserving. Columbus was the XVth century Corrigan...
...knows that Ezra Cornell won't mind. He will keep on smiling as he watches his sons--the sons of Cornell--do battle with the Bruin-bruised sons of John. Vag will smile, too. Like Ezra, he feels that Cornell is probably going "to be great." But, like Ezra, Vag also "took his measures accordingly." This afternoon he will escort his Pine Manor cheering section to the game, well knowing that their young voices can last out even the toughest gridiron battle. It's Vag's own personal sacrifice. The Crimson will get vocal support, but God help...
...when he failed to put over a $23,625,000 fund for his Highway Department last June. The Republican Legislature, fuming because he kept it in session most of the summer, finally voted only $5,000,000 and placed it beyond his control. Meanwhile, sly Mr. Curley had been smiling his devious smile, filling his campaign chest, promising jobs to Massachusetts' 400,000 unemployed. When more than 500,000 Democrats turned out for the Hurley-Curley, they gave Mr. Curley nearly 3-to-2 victory over Mr. Hurley. Mr. Curley at once offered his services to Governor Hurley...
...stands with Mr. Boyer the test of the long, electric close-ups. The picture is notable for its attention to those details which aid in heightening the effect:--the irony of the blaring player-piano as the informer is murdered, the omnipresence of the boy-killer with the idiotic smile, various other tricks in lights and settings...
...Such mishaps he took with a grin. "If you can walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash in 1932 put him in the hospital for months and filled his famous smile with store teeth; in another he somersaulted off a line of overhead wires, landed upside down. Overhead wires were Frank Hawks's pet hate. "They ought to bury 'em all," he used to growl...