Word: smile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unusual feeling that here is an achievement which can not receive anything but unreserved congratulation, and must receive that congratulation, for it is not every day that the habits of a group of men can be swerved so successfully into a right channel. It brings forth a smile of satisfaction to count up the figures and find that 305 out of a class of 420 have shown wisdom enough to choose to live their Senior year in the Yard. Last year there were two hundred and eighty wise men and that was considered a bewilderingly large proportion. Such impetus...
Again we look at the long list of names and smile with satisfaction; we even laugh, for, lo, the "King of Bulgaria" has drawn a room in the top of Matthews. What need has he of Adrianople now? It is such a serious improvement that we have a right to laugh...
...Hall and of the Harvard Union as boarding places for students calls for a word of explanation. The almost universal consensus of hygienic opinion today is against eating houses that provide for their patrons no attractive rooms for pleasant social intercourse before and after the meals. "To chat and smile and wait awhile" instead of rushing in and out is now a rule of health for all self-respecting persons so widely recognized that no restaurant or dining room is considered well regulated that is not immediately connected with a pleasant social room...
...equal individuality in its use. A peculiarity of both was the habit of delaying speech for an instant, while the mind was working and the telling sentence was framing itself for utterance--a brief interval during which the lips would gather slightly, as for a sort of smile, and the eyes and faces take on an indescribable expression of great charm. Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall so well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic, but always keen. Occasionally, too, they were full...
...which he is to return, and the young prince, idealizing in the boyish delight of new freedom, all that he finds there. It is German, too, when it turns the old sentimentalist into the tipsy sharer in student routs and makes the young prince believe that Kaethie's practised smile signifies so much that is personal and intimate. Perhaps it is most German when it turns all the emotions of the young man, set by unkind circumstance over his principality, into a haunting "sehnsucht" that sends him back to Heidelberg--and to disillusion...