Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creasing his checks the familiar professorial smile was smiled, and in disarming kindly tone he asked if one of his pupils had read a speech of Patrick Henry's, assigned in a book of documents compiled by the professor and nicely bound by the Oxford Press at a price suitable for a work by a great scholar...
...professorial smile appeared again, and in his kindly benevolent way the professor informed his class, "Gentlemen I see no purpose in lecturing if the reading has not been done. Good Morning". With the fresh flower in his buttonhole appropriately rufiled, Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D., M.A., Lit. D., Professor of History and Official Historian to the University retired...
Three weeks ago Hitler's benign smile for Bernstein changed to a storm-dark cloud. Members of Hitler's secret police (Gestapo) collared Jew Bernstein secretly, flung him and two of his directors, also Jews, into a Hamburg jail. For a fortnight no journalist could learn the charges. Not till last week did Hitler, in the role of "Germany's Maritime Führer," come through with the statement that Jew Bernstein & colleagues were held "for violation of foreign exchange regulations," that a State trustee had been appointed to operate the Bernstein lines pending the trial...
...show for the meeting except a date for another (Feb. 8). Said he with a chuckle: "We never used to get anything-but now, with a sympathetic Congress. . . ." To that John Pelley's reply is to cast an eye toward the White House and observe with a smile of his own: "The boys have been pretty good...
...speak to the sons of professors differently from the way you'd talk to some of the tough Cambridge kids. In general you can quiet most restless children with a smile, but if you threaten them they'll take your dare. If you're reasonably decent to them, they'll behave and you won't have to kick them...