Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...late there has been an unfortunate attitude towards aviation in the University, an attitude which appears more and more ridiculous in the light of Captain Beith's remarks. The tendency has been to smile at the men who left for Miami and Newport News as sportsmen off for a good time, attracted by the danger and the thrills of airplaning, and not by any practical value it might have in war-fare. Now it appears that the success of the army will depend upon these so called "adventurers...
...noticed in the morning when the weariness from a day's work has not come over one. They are small floating islands of joy which the child laughs at and seeks to capture. In life at college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human...
...mirage is very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time on the way would be easier. However, he was not to go further, his life was demanded...
...second act, Miss Vokes appears for the first time, as usual in her role of the light-witted servant. And, as usual, she plays the part of Lottie, the under cook, who can concentrate only on Scotch and romance, with the same success, the same ability to score a smile or a laugh at every line, all of which seem to have been written especially...
...sont Coupes," a vividly remembered picture of childhood in Brussels, full of detail yet unified and effective. Of the stories, Mr. Plummer's "Full o' the Moon" catches the spirit of Irish legend, though the effort at Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals...