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...Japan," forthright in song, mincing in pantomime, hair-trigger with the fan. Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like...
Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
...July before adjournment. Democrats, aware that he had just nominated their presidential candidate at Chicago, nocked about him warmly, wrung his bony hand. Mississippi's Harrison and Georgia's Cohen sang his praises to the Press. Even California's Republican Johnson had a friendly greeting for him. The McAdoo grin permeated the lobby. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello . . . hello," he cackled to one & all. Suddenly his narrow eye fell upon Senator Shortridge, his probable opponent in November, sitting quietly in a big black leather chair...
Lest the Irish Free State delegation bolt, the message omitted His Majesty's customary allusion to his "loyal subjects" and the Conference in a subsequent resolution thanking His Majesty omitted the customary words "allegiance" and "loyalty." With a broad Irish grin, Free State Vice President Sean O 'Kelly called the resolution "the least provocative (from an Irishman's point of view) that has ever been sent by an Imperial Conference to the King...
...championship last month, played dazzling tennis for two sets. Prenn got three games in each. Tennis critics, who expect a player with a two-set lead to loaf a little but not let down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible as he has often done before. Vines removed...