Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most husbands do at least once, Malcolm Whitman, textile man, onetime U.S. singles tennis champion and Davis Cup player, came home one night wearing a silly grin and an expensive tie. His wife thought the tie was awful. She said she could make a better tie herself,† Dared by her husband, she did-and he was proud to wear it. Friends wanted to buy ties like it; Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch asked Mrs. Lucilla Mara Whitman to design ties for their customers...
...rest of the winter's first big tourney, the $7,500 North & South Open at swanky Pinehurst last week, was uphill work for Hogan against his old enemy-himself. Ben froze a tabby-cat grin on his face, paid no attention to anyone else's score. He walked fast; a hare-&-hounds trail of cigarets marked his route; he smoked a cigaret half through, dropped it to make a shot, then lit another. If this was a sign of nervousness, his 170 rivals -many of whom had given up tobacco to steady their nerves-didn't think...
...daylight V.F.W. funmaking provoked fewer hooligans. Proudly the veterans of four wars, 30,000 strong, paraded for five hours through a confetti-tossing mass of cheering New Englanders. Bostonians managed a grin at the placard behind a strutting Lone Star bugle corps: "The horse Paul Revere rode came from Texas...
Like Frankie, Jean latches on to a microphone as if it had gender. There the resemblance ends. Jean is middling tall, broad-shouldered, has a mechanical grin and a thick shrub of mustache, through which he filters a vibrant baritone like the late Russ Columbo...
...King Carol of Rumania wanted to come to the U.S., "but of course we can't let him in." Mrs. Roosevelt: "Franklin, don't say 'we can't let him in.' . . . You know who they'll blame . . . me." Churchill, with a "guileless" grin: "A matter of matrimony, I believe." Loud laughter...