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...DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through Newton Hills, where Johnny Miles began passing Stenroos and dropping back, passing him and dropping back, nine times, until once he passed him grinning and refused to drop back, but spurted on through Brookline, Coolidge Corner and Governor's Square to-Exeter Street, where Johnny Miles grinned a broader grin, flung up his arms and burst the tape, not only winner of a historic race but possessor of a new world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...every day that one can be an aesthete. A vagabond must watch the calendar warily, and when the fitting day arrives, pounce upon it. Bozo Snyder has left these parts to show his toothless grin to other audiences. There are those left, however, who still hold aloft the banner of culture, and the aesthete need not quite despair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/25/1926 | See Source »

There were curtain calls, many of them, for an exceedingly able cast; calls for the great old lady, who finally came out alone, enveloped the entire audience with a mighty grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honored | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

Today the bulldog again wears an engaging grin that displays teeth as well as cheerfulness, and John Harvard dispenses hospitality with one hand while he meditatively sharpens his pioneer's axe with the other. This is the time when indifference takes its annual vacation, for the tradition of fifty years f mutual regard and respect is entering on its second half century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON AND THE BLUE | 11/21/1925 | See Source »

...thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile is on the other side of its mouth. Instead of using Balkan disorders as matches to kindle European war fires, it uses them as flares to light the way to a more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LEAGUE IN ACTION | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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