Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked at me with a confident smile. "This will wither them!" he exclaimed. At last a permanent record of our contempt where all will see it. This is a triumph...
First, reading aloud: "'Lord Henry's cameo-like features relaxed themselves into a smile. What the deuce is a camco-like picture...
Appearance. He is slightly under six feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
...most significant feature of last week's deliberation was the diplomatic duel over Syria. Ismet Pasha, a small shrewd-looking man, with a smile and courtly manners, and a reputation for diplomatic skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey...
Ignace Jan Paderewski: " Since last November my earnings have been $460,000-or about $7,800 a concert. I smile at Ruth and Dempsey, who are reputed to average $80,000 and $150,000 a year, respectively. I bow to Fairbanks and Chaplin, whose reported earnings...