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...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...
...London slums are brief but harrowingly Hogarthian: and Squire Western's hunt explains more powerfully than words could possibly explain the senselessness and horror of blood sport. Mile after mile the chase goes on: the running deer all terror and loveliness, the men and the dogs all grinning the same blank, murderous, animal grin. Then all at once the deer collapses. Blood in their eyes, the men and the dogs fall upon it together. They snarl and they slaver, they tear at its throat. Smeared scarlet, Squire Western screams, and out of the melee of blood and teeth...