Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tension was hemispheric. In a Calgary, Alberta court, the Crown interrupted his address to the jury to glance at a note. Then he passed it on to defense counsel, who broke into a grin and quickly apologized: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but I have just received today's ball score." The judge suggested drily that the jury would like to know the news too. "Of course, your Lordship," came the answer. "The Dodgers...
...Harry Truman could never escape for long. Earlier in the week to a group of visiting state bank commissioners, he had implicitly confessed that as President he does not spend all his time laughing. The White House, said the President with a wry grin, is the finest jail in the world...
...creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
...politician could have bettered the General's comment on his house-hunting problem: "Fundamentally," he explained with that famous grin which makes his eyes twinkle, "I'm a farmer boy. I want a place out of town where I can raise a few tomatoes and beans and get close to the soil." When he was asked whether he would be addressed as "President" or "General" after he assumed his duties at Columbia, he replied: "As long as I live, I shall answer most readily to the name...
...other product, for that matter) at the usual $1,000 per endorsement. He could sign his name to no magazine or newspaper articles. When he got what he considered a bad decision from the umpire, he was not to object. When another player insulted him, he was to grin and bear it. He had to leave the ballpark after games by a secret exit. It was as important to avoid adulation as it was to avoid brickbats; there were to be no Jackie Robinson Days at Ebbets Field. He was not to accept any social invitations, from whites or blacks...