Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court to discuss the Philippines and, doubtless, the impending appointment of a new Governor-General. As he put on his coat and started to leave the White House, Judge Taft's constitutional smile took on a baffled expression. He walked off but soon returned, heaving with discomfort. By mistake, he had been helped into the coat of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Changing coats, Judge Taft chuckled something about reducing, walked off smiling broadly once more. Big but not bulky, Senator Howell was closeted, all unknowing...
...publication who are always relegated to the back of the yearbook picture. They did not have to worry about hands, feet or the bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back...
...have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous man I ever knew. He has charm...
...While Mr. Rockefeller was preparing for the banquet his father, aged 88, was enroute to his winter home in Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice: "A smile is the greatest thing in life. There is nothing like a smile to bring cheerfulness, and the world would be worth but little were there no smiles...
...smile, resting on a foundation of sincerity, is one of the most valuable things in the world. It cheers when nothing else would make an impression. It gives a thrill of which no human agency is capable. A smile has changed the whole course of a human life. A smile serves as a guidepost at a turning point for a man who is hesitating at the intersection of two paths. A smile is the sun that dissipates the clouds of despair. It is just the ray of light that many a soul needs to make life seem preferable to death...