Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth of the Roosevelt smile...
...Vagabond came dashing into the Crimson building about six thirty last night, his hair disheveled, his the awry, and his clothes generally askew. On his face there was the look of a hunted man. The genial smile which usually characterizes the dapper old fellow was lost in an expression that can be described only as haunted. Terror, sheer stark terror gleamed in his eyes...
...output of our foundries at this moment is too aggressive, too strident, to be overlooked with a pitying smile. These bronze rowdies whoop and vociferate on all sides. I recently heard a witty artist friend size up the situation in this wise: 'After the Civil War they did the worst they knew how; today we have become more skillful and we are able to do much worse...
...jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...
...athletes paraded out of the arena, observers thought they saw Herr Hitler, whose tiny mustache was by this time white with snow flakes, smile with special gratification at the particularly loud cheers given the Austrian delegation, look yearningly at the mountain tops, a few miles beyond which lies the Austrian border. Half an hour later the last of the athletes had filed out of the skistadium and the Olympic Games were under...