Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allied powers" were Russia, Austria and Prussia, in league with Spain and Bourbon France. And our republic was then in its infancy, and its safety was certainly imperilled by this powerful combination of European despotisms. Can any one without a smile ask what is there now to be compared with this? Would England extend any "political system" to South america which could in any sense endanger "our peace and happiness?" When the last French Empire undertook to establish an empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack...
...Kentucky Smile, A. D. Grover...
...sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that on the firm rock of their faith was founded our state and our college, and that they have stood firm through two hundred and fifty years of controversies and trouble...
...breaking demand upon the father to aid him in getting away lest his strength should prove unequal to his promise, must be seen to be appreciated. Mr. Goodwin has been well known for his ability to cause people to laugh, in fact, his name is a simile for a smile, but in this pathetic little sketch he has made many eyes bright with moisture. Following "Garrick." Mr. Goodwin will appear as Golightly in Madison Morton's one-act comedy, "Lend Me Five Shillings." At the Saturday matinee Mr. Goodwin will present "A Gilded Fool," by Henry Guy Carleton...
...perhaps even more, out of nearly three thousand. With an eagerness characteristic of the man expelled for riotous behavior, they snatch at the chance to give Harvard a vicious "dig." "Who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study" they say and you can almost see them smile with satisfaction at the readiness of their own wit and the depth of their observation. We wish that a few such writers could take a course here, and they would soon have their eyes opened to the insignificance of their own greatness...