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Last week, tall, aristocratic, big-boned M. Bratiano sat as a mere Deputy, disconsolate, while a broad, confident peasant grin spread under the small, black moustache of M. Maniu. Just prior to the opening of Parliament, the black moustache brushed ever so lightly and reverently the hand of Her Majesty the Dowager Queen...
...Smith technique during parades: sweep the hat, inclusively, at nearby crowds. Grin squarely at this person, then that. Answer cries with a comeback now and then. Scan crowds at distant windows; single out one group, grin and wave the hat straight at the group. A distant concerted cheer will come back. People in the street look up. Everyone cheers...
Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which...
...that he had left them somewhere about his house, he conducted a search, but while doing so, he became aware of sharp stomach pain. His suspicions were soon confirmed by an X-ray photograph. He had swallowed his three front teeth. Still calm, John Magee announced with a vacant grin, his intention of going to Newport...
...spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented a façade which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with the sort of 'reality' one has in mind here. . . . Underneath ... is something else-something taut and eager, quickly sensitive; something that boils and struggles in there, that answers and leaps. Touch or pierce that roughneck...