Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just flown from New York " he remarked with a grin. "By the way, where am I?" Dubliners told him. "My," said Corrigan, "and I thought it was California all the time...
...that night a dog ran over it with its muddy feet. [Here the President began to grin.] When she saw what was done she sat down and didn't cry a bit. All she said was, 'Ain't it queer that he didn't miss nothin?' That was true greatness, but it is only people who have done washing that know...
...Lady at Large," by Philip Goodman, presents the sorry spectacle of capable actors and actresses struggling with hopeless material They grin conscientiously over thir lines, but can't help revealing slightly their lack of enthusiasm for the insipid chatter they are required to recite. The only genuine laugh in last night's performance was provoked by the hotelkeeper's quite accidentally tearing his pants. And this device will probably be abandoned...
...Bolles was reluctant to give out the time of the race--"they'll be gunning for us anyway," he said. But there was a wide, satisfied grin on his face as he admitted that the time was excellent for this early in the season. He did admit that it was "near" the best time made by the crew all last year over the course...
Little Felix Kaspar won the world's championship in 1937, succeeding his fellow Viennese Karl Schaefer, who had held the title seven years running. Something of a blade, Kaspar often wears trousers rather than tights, always wears a grin on his dimpled pink face. His greatest accomplishment, however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria...