Word: smirk
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Playsmith Dunning has done the sleazy male racketeer with no abandoned strokes because for scornful presentation it is necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress...
...cringe and smirk, and when you have an apology to offer you do it like a man. You have the attitude my father held, that of standing square on your heels and looking anyone...
...senior class at West Point. He is captain of the soccer team, member of most of the reception and prom committees, an honor cadet, a President's appointee, the son of a colonel. Now he is a much twitted cadet. Underclassmen salute him with a smirk in their eyes; seniors ask him how his girl friend is getting along...
Sandalwood-An uninteresting smirk relieved by Pauline Lord...
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...