Word: smirked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sung with neither smirk nor schmalz by onetime Preacher Frank Luther and a few assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...
...with good direction, a good script and a good supporting cast, the MacDonald - Eddy team can put on a fine show. Of course there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American Public can't live on molasses all the time, even with Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy...
...there was a suggestion of a smirk on John Lewis' big face when he congratulated the miners for helping re-elect "the only President in our lifetime who has tried to give a square deal to the common people of this country." The President's regrets to the miners' convention in 1936 began "My Dear President Lewis;" fortnight ago it began "My dear John," but John Lewis has been something less than an enthusiastic Roosevelt admirer for nearly a year, has made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the President's handling of Recession...
When the opposing five were struggling about his basket, he stood apart, hands on hips, head high, and contemplated the situation. There was a smirk on his face, made grotesque by the mask, as if he believed the other team could not by any means shoot a basket, which made it necessary for him to waste his strength. So he stood there, doing nothing, shuffling from one foot to the other, while the enemies he scorned made a basket...
...Social Credit fools many people," said onetime Socialist Sinclair with a patient smirk. "Actually it's just like printing money. When you give the people more money to buy more products, as in the Douglas plan, you are simply diluting money...