Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made a short speech in perfect Mandarin. From then on, he had no need of paper airplanes to make friends. Here was a white man who treated his yellow hosts as equals-as superiors, sometimes...
Early returns showed the Batista faction leading, and the dusky Colonel exulted with his broadest grin: "I have never been so happy in my public life as now! It is a triumph of the people that exalts both Cuba and the Cubans. The armed forces have reason to be content...
...Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival in P'aris. The fact that no Nazi bigwig was killed in the explosion convinced him, he said, that the Nazis themselves had set the bomb to increase the Fiihrer's popularity, and he cracked with a grin: "The beer hall, four weeks before, had been insured by a Swiss company...
...November. Everyone knows how they are going to come out-as they always have, with a compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island, the diplomats find themselves in sudden agreement, and sign...
Down the list droned the clerk, paused at the last name and took a breath. Then, "Not guilty." Over Bill Knudsen's broad Danish face spread a grin. He turned and silently shook the hand of the man next to him. Then there was handshaking all around...