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...broad-faced Oriental sea dog with quarter-deck manners and a likeable grin brought Japan's naval disarmament plan to Geneva last week. The plan as explained by its cheerful custodian, Vice-Admiral Osami Nagano, is crisp, direct, simple and quite as much a credit to its authors as other plans thus far presented at the Conference. Ticking off its points on his knobby fingers, Admiral Nagano said that Japan asks...
...purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved his own tempo...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his face relaxed in the easy grin that he had flashed at millions of his countrymen from the back platform of his campaigning trains, was easing himself down the steps of the old Hyde Park town hall. He had just voted for himself for 32nd President of the U. S. With him was a cortege of newspapermen, his wife and his son Elliott. Mrs. Higgins is a neighbor of the Squire of Krum Elbow. Everyone laughed at his question which was thoroughly facetious. Mrs. Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds...
...essences of grain and grape this year, and perhaps a little more for beer. Which means that men will either be wearing elastic-sided pleats at waist-line level, or that there will be fewer men objectionable late Saturday when the only thing that can keep a man's grin together in that fact of his weariness is the sting of liquor. This is to the good...
...huge jaw bent into an amiable grin...