Word: shrug
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...having enough to do to keep him interested, and having so much to do that it keeps him scrambling. And he has managed what James Branch Cabell points to as the secret of the gallant attitude, "to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug...
...songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German. "It's a hell of a job to do a dramatic show in half an hour," she explains with a shrug. "There isn't time for singing because you have to worry about character and plot...
...more than six years, W. Stuart Symington has been a tireless troubleshooter for Harry Truman. He has handled four mettle-testing Washington assignments since Truman brought him in from St. Louis in 1945 as Surplus Property Administrator. Last week, with a casual shrug of the shoulders, Truman dropped the word that he will accept Symington's resignation some time this month. Truman didn't seem to care...
...Symington's battles were accompanied by disappointments. He hoped to be named Secretary of Defense, later aimed at the top mobilization job, which went to Charlie Wilson. After the Truman shrug last week, Symington said: "A man . . . ought to go back to private life some time and regain his perspective; he ought to get out of Washington and get his feet on the ground again...
...They take so warmly to Passmore and their son's widow that Passmore begins to understand the barrier of misunderstanding that separated the parents from their spoiled son. Newby tells his decent, civilized story effortlessly and well; but at the end its pallor and essential bloodlessness bring a shrug...