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...older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel. When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner...
...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...SMIRK, SNEER, CONSPIRE, PLOT, DECEIVE, GLOAT, CONNIVE, LEER and DEFAME...
...want to find out whether you are telling the truth, and you grin and smirk and laugh...
...opinions . . . Private Schine was, at the time of his induction, just within the 26-year-old limit, and the kind of controversial public figure the Army does not like to han dle. Did his draft number just pop up, accidental-like? Or, as his friends accuse and enemies smirk, as everyone believes, was it drawn? Why wasn't he given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs, and a lot of other people too, like Elliott Roosevelt (who worked his way up to the rank of brigadier general) .... Anyone...