Word: smirk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three months, the U. S. raved; in six, England shrieked; in a year his hat, feet, waddle and harrassed, insouciant smirk were familiar to South Sea Islanders who pasted his picture on the walls of their bathhouses; to lamas in Tibet who chucked each other in the ribs at a mention of his name; to bushwackers, coolies, Cossacks, Slavs, Nordics. His salary became $1.000, $2,000 $3,000 a week. One film company after another outbid each other for him; he worked for Essanay, Mutual, First National, United Artists...
...writes about all the familiar plagues and problems of the body-from catching cold to cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy...
...York Times: "Provocation of that sustained inner warmth and that happy smirk that are essential to the well-being of the race...
Nothing is quite so deadly as the chuckle, the smirk, suppressed or unsuppressed, which some of our current "literature" renders illustrious. That is why we are thankful for the Advocate. There is here no "attempt" at anything, not even a momentary toying with nuance and innuendo and theatricality. To be sure, one finds it picturesque to straddle the fence and bury one's head in the sand, all at a breath; but one also finds it invariably fatal...