Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown up with him in Winn Parish. Waxing wealthy in oil and merchandise, he had staked Long to his political start in 1918 when Long ran for a place on the Louisiana Railroad Commission. As Governor, Oscar Allen had been utterly subservient to Long, taken his cursings with a smile, contented himself with being what he called "The Little Fish." In mortal fear for his own life, Oscar Allen last week had only one thought: to get his daughter quietly married (see p. 55) and to retire from public life as soon as possible...
...Have you ever seen an ostrich?' she asked me. 'Many women who see an ostrich long to snatch the feathers from its tail. Some do. some don't. I did!' she dimpled into a smile...
...help bring back the Cup. As soon as he reached England, Budge made it clear that he not only deserved a real place on the team but that he was by far the ablest member of it. In the Wimbledon tournament, where he distinguished himself by making Queen Mary smile when, arriving late to watch the matches, she saw him waving his racket to welcome her instead of standing still and bowing, he reached the semi-finals after defeating Bunny Austin. He beat Baron von Cramm in the Davis Cup interzone final and took a set from Perry when...
...cool August night Manhattan's 1935-36 theatrical season last week officially opened with an inexpensive, inept, vulgar and apologetic musical review called Smile at Me (sketches by Edward J. Lambert, music by Gerald Dolin and Lambert: produced by Harold K. Berg). Strewn through an evening of unqualified shoddy were a few good vaudeville turns: singing by light tan Avis Andrews; a sadistic Death dance by Vito and Piri; a sadistic Hawaiian dance by Paul and Poppy Mears...
...With a smile on his face, some new scores in his trunk and a number of signed contracts in his pocket, Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Manhattan last fortnight from a two-month jaunt around Europe. Briskly he began to tell of plans for this winter's 14-week season in the nation's last remaining permanent opera company. There will be no reduction in box-office prices ($8 top). There will be fewer star performers singing at the Metropolitan...