Word: grins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conscientious nonexerciser whose only outdoor sport is a lackadaisical game of croquet. At a recent black-tie party, the vigorous wife of one official rushed up to him, ripped open his shirt and squealed, " 'Errveee, I thought everybody nice wore undershirts!" Hervé managed a weak grin, slunk off to a corner to button...
...patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just looks at you with that damn-your-eyes look and goes right on with what...
...Alec's younger brother, Playwright William Douglas-Home, warns that his "apparent mildness, his good-natured absent-mindedness," even his grin, are deceptive. William also vows that under Home, unlike Macmillan, "there won't be any nepotism." Says he: "Sister Bridget won't be chairing the Tory conference at Blackpool, my bird-watching brother Henry won't be next Secretary of State for Scotland, I will not be sent to the U.N., and Edward, my youngest brother, who spent four years on the Burma railway as a prisoner of war, will not be Minister without Portfolio...
...four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped, the "little girl" filed a smiling complaint. "Why is it," she said, "that I always have my picture taken between Eddie Arcaro and Johnny Rotz?" The two jockeys could only grin and try to look bigger...
...Well--" He grinned. "I got me a rent collector the other night." The grin became thoughtful. "C.M.E. gettin' bad again...