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...direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
Noted was her glee; but haughty aristocrats, perforce, put on a grin that hardly covered their disdain: a Queen hobnobbing with servants...
...leaned back in his chair, his face wreathed in gratification. There on his desk in his private office in the Kremlin, Moscow, was an invitation from the City of Boston to participate in its third centenary celebration in 1930. So high an honor could not be refused. With a grin and a flourish the invitation was accepted, a delegation named to proceed to Boston for the event...
...Manhattan publisher, in whose office Eden meets Alayne Archer. When he takes her back to Jalna, sweet old Adeline pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant's skinny. You're just right for a bride. Eh, my dear, but if I was a young man I'd like to sleep with...
Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...