Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Villagers of Manuden, England, gathered on the lawn of the vicarage of the Rev. Harry B. Grin-die, 70, on his wedding night. They beat tin pans, iron kettles, garbage cans, etc. They honked horns. In short, they gave Vicar Grindle an old-fashioned "tin kettling"-to remind him that they thought he had violated an unwritten...
...diamond stickpin, detached his necktie, laid them on the shelf over the basin, shaved. Soon he gave a shout, raced from his cabin dived overboard, swam to the Quinalt's scuppers, trod water, cupped his hands beneath the pouring stream of wastage. His anxious frown became a glad grin when the $500 diamond stickpin tumbled out and he caught...
...Comic. It is entirely fitting that a playwright dramatize himself occasionally, especially if he does so with a grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...
...boyish grin and wispy figure of Edward of Wales are so familiar in London dance halls and saloons (TIME, Feb. 7, 21), that when he motored out to Hastings, Sussex, last week, past fields of primroses all in saffron bloom, Britons wondered if His Royal Highness would not tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda...
Last week Wilson's Cabinet seemed all at once to emerge from the shadows. From his engrossing paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels came, an infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes...