Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said the unabashed Kingfish: "Aw, that ain't nothing. That ain't no new power. But the bill provoked a New England-born, hitherto mouse-quiet Representative named Lester to supply the only fireworks of the session. While Huey Long, wearing a pink shirt and a broad grin, lolled on the Speaker's dais, Representative Lester shouted: "I feel outraged and dishonored as a citizen and an official of Louisiana. . . . We, as Legislators, are called upon to take from the people the last vestige of their local political rights . . . and in all of this the House...
...general's daughter when she visits Hawaii, gets into trouble when he takes her for a moonlight joyride. Ruby Keeler is the general's daughter who, when her father has been assigned to the Point as Superintendent, watches Powell, wearing a shako and a beatific grin, graduate four years later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister...
...iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever as hell but so innocent. Tactful, charming, ingratiating. Urbane grin, fine stage presence. A grand old actor...
...last week James Aloysius Farley could dress up in a dinner coat, sit on a desk in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, grin like an Easter egg, swing his feet and very properly crow: "The New Deal has been magnificently sustained. . . . Our majority in the U. S. Senate and our ma jority in the House. . . . The greatest plurality ever given to Democratic candidates...
Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...