Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, never before has a campaigning British political leader so heartily abused the White House occupant. According to Premier Hepburn the sum of $500,000 was contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
...Pace Alexander, Harvard Law '23, who claims to be the "most active Negro lawyer" with 200 cases a year and net annual income of $20,000, reported that in the North things are somewhat better. Successful Negro lawyers can average about $5,000 a year. With a broad grin, Lawyer Alexander told how he delighted to go South on a case and force white lawyers to call him "Mr." "They'll gladly call you Professor, Colonel, or Doctor, but Mister sticks...
...looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most of the women who crowded in to shake hands with the little Princesses and grin in Queen Elizabeth's face were badly dressed women with haw-haw accents. . . . The Canadian and American girls would have loved to meet the Queen, but were too good-mannered, cool and dignified to fight their way through the mob. . . . More than once the gentlemen-in-waiting had to link...
...came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred to that branch. When he met Corra, the beautiful wife of an anemic...
Under a canopy of gold and silver the Archbishop-elect marched with a procession to the high altar where a papal bull was read to him, formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into...