Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...
...gesture from Sacha Guitry is worth a paragraph. One smile from his wife, Yvonne Printemps, is a whole challenge. Don't let the dear old lady beside you try to use you as a dictionary, or the graduate student in front of you argue the history of the case. Follow Mozart with both eyes, and the devils take the hindmost...
...reporters Seņor Pani showed his sharp white teeth with a quick smile. He was on his way to Paris, he said, there to become Mexican Minister. He pointed with pride to an announcement made last week by Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. that Mexico has paid in full the interest on her external debt to U. S. investors for 1926. Seņor Pani, as Mexican Finance Minister, put through this payment...
With these words he finished his toilette, and leaving the dressing room, asked with a slight smile. "Is Everybody Happy...
...unfortunate aspect of this movement, is that its spirit is being applied to life in general. Of a recent work of modern music a well-known critic has written. "It is a work of discord and cacophonies; as ugly and as true as life itself." Let us all smile together...