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...with good direction, a good script and a good supporting cast, the MacDonald - Eddy team can put on a fine show. Of course there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American Public can't live on molasses all the time, even with Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...there was a suggestion of a smirk on John Lewis' big face when he congratulated the miners for helping re-elect "the only President in our lifetime who has tried to give a square deal to the common people of this country." The President's regrets to the miners' convention in 1936 began "My Dear President Lewis;" fortnight ago it began "My dear John," but John Lewis has been something less than an enthusiastic Roosevelt admirer for nearly a year, has made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the President's handling of Recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners v. Miami | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

When the opposing five were struggling about his basket, he stood apart, hands on hips, head high, and contemplated the situation. There was a smirk on his face, made grotesque by the mask, as if he believed the other team could not by any means shoot a basket, which made it necessary for him to waste his strength. So he stood there, doing nothing, shuffling from one foot to the other, while the enemies he scorned made a basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...Social Credit fools many people," said onetime Socialist Sinclair with a patient smirk. "Actually it's just like printing money. When you give the people more money to buy more products, as in the Douglas plan, you are simply diluting money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Messiah, Major, Money | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...Book. But beneath their modish taffetas each is dressed in an emotional hair shirt. Both Helen Menken, whose make-up has become more & more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus narrows down into a cat-&-cat fight between the cousins over a daughter whom Charlotte in an unguarded moment had by an artist whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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