Word: smirking
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Since just such a rear-engine car is now in its second year of sleek production by Mercédés, Nazis might well smirk at President Stout's exhortation to the U. S. automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart...
This amounted to a hint that President Roosevelt is trying to force the franc into devaluation, caused U. S. Treasury officials to smirk that uncertainty as to the future of the franc appears to exist. From Paris French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin crisply volleyed the issue back by declaring that the franc would stand its ground until the pound and dollar got together...
...looking for the bicycle department," he explained later, "I ran smack into the giant statue of a man with a smirk, half undressed. The inscription said he was G. Washington...
...livening injection of aesthetic values the student concentrating merely on style development, degenerates into an animated almanac of precise and inconsequential facts; without the control of style, the aesthete intent on whetting his own sensibilities sinks into a condition of hazy introversion, characterized by flowing hair and a precieux smirk. In order that students may derive the greatest possible benefit from the objective view, the Fine Arts Department might look with profit to the example of History and Literature. A new department, History and Fine Arts, is not inconceivable. At present it is a crying need...
Meanwhile thousands if not millions of Rumanians slipped from hand to hand with many a smirk picture postcards which suddenly appeared throughout the Kingdom. They showed a man with the head of King Carol holding on his lap a woman with the head of His Majesty's mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu. Purple in the face, a Court spokesman spluttered that "dastard enemies of His Majesty the King have concocted these slanderous photographs from models on whom heads have apparently been superimposed...