Word: wanning
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...same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...
...extensive planting of frost-resisting crops of the sort developed by the late Ivan Michurin, the Burbank of Russia. A start has already been made with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown under glass at Khibina, inside the Arctic Circle, and with potatoes and cabbage that ripen outdoors in the wan, fleeting summer...
...nunnery. Inside slept Chastity like a drift of snow in a cave in summer. Behind the grilled window of a tower chamber in candle burned. A young friar saw it and smiled as he walked up and down in the walled-in garden of the nunnery. The wan night air, fragrant with the scent of flowers, caressed him. Old repressions and half-forgotten dusty dont's quickened his pleasure in the escapade. If one could only catch this fragile essence and then only paint the moonlight. If one could breath into it the glamour of expectant love...
Last week, fresh from the operating room and Death's disappointment, he shed his wan wonder-look upon the Philadelphia assembly. Surgeon Behrend showed moving pictures of the operation which relieved Marvin Goodman of his trouble some spleen...
Shanghai & Nanking raged, ranted. "The crowning of this doll," cried Shanghai's Sin Wan Pao, "grossly insults the whole Chinese people. We must continue the revolutionary spirit which resulted in the Manchu dynasty's overthrow to clean away this gross humiliation." Added the China Times: "It is preliminary to Japanese expansion in Mongolia whose people are devoted to the Manchu household...