Word: smirk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Composer Mascagni once had himself photographed with a deck of cards in his ringed hands and a large cigar protruding from a smirk. The waggish, swaggering air of the picture pleased him immensely, and whenever a lady asked him for a likeness this was the one he gave her, signed, in all cases, with love, Pietro Mascagni. It is not difficult to see why he liked this photograph; in it he saw himself for the first time as what he had always wanted to be-a gambler...
This is the Day of All Fools and in the eyes of most educators in general and Glenn Frank in particular there is no greater fool than an intellectual vagabond. On this, my adopted natal day I cannot forbear giving my assailants good cause to smirk over me. "Mad," they'll say, "quite mad." But at the unholy hour of nine I shall have quitted the sleep of the untroubled, which all vagabonds enjoy, for the heights of Emerson J and the discourse of Mr. Prescott on Ductless Glands...
...their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...That was just about the time he left the ninth tee," said the greensman with a smirk. The old gentlemen then learned from him how the figure they had seen was that of Frank Watts Jr., who, taking a bet that he could play 18 holes over the difficult course in 45 minutes and turn in a card of 85 or better, had gone out in 21 minutes with 38 strokes, come in with the same number of shots in 23 min. 45 sec., establishing a record of 44:45 and 82 for 18 holes which he challenges other golfers...
...imperial robe of crimson or scarlet or green. Everywhere floated American flags. The entire District of Columbia contingent (of about 100) carried each a large flag, gift from the Texas Klans. Other banners showed a masked horseman, a little red schoolhouse, the legend "Non Silbla sed Anthar (Klansmen smirk when asked to translate this; it is not Latin), and the legend "We Are 100% American." Bands played America, The Star Spangled Banner, Adeste Fideles and other hymns, Maryland, My Maryland...