Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the New Deal was putting over its "Death Sentence" Public Utility Holding Company Act, Associated Gas and Electric's Howard Hopson spent $1,000,000 lobbying against it. With his roly-poly body and ear-to-ear smile, he became the utility industry's "mystery man" and lone wolf. Last week Hopson was hopelessly ill with heart disease, and Associated (a $1,000,000,000 system) was in financial trouble such as never caught up with it when he was at the helm...
...looks younger than when he left the White House. He is red-faced, cherubic, and still wears the high collars, high shoes, the slightly pained and embarrassed smile that have always made him an easy target for cartoonists. His only political characteristic is that he smokes cigars. But he hates to be photographed doing it. He sometimes drinks a cocktail. Reporters who interview him now find that he has few doubts-of himself, of his ideas, of the U. S., of the prospect that the G. O. P. can defeat the New Deal in 1940. The apostle of confidence...
...with each other on a big black mat in seemingly strange fashion every afternoon, but there's method in their madness because all are under the watchful eye of Pat Orr Johnson, youthful Varsity and Freshman wrestling coach. And right now Pat has a right to flash his broadest smile in years, because as soon as his Varsity matment can shake off a few minor early-season injuries, they have a good chance to develop into one of the most powerful and best-balanced squads he has ever had here...
...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
...throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth, can almost let a smile cruse his stormy countenance...