Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doumergue has been nicknamed "Le President qui rit." His smile is infectious. He speaks with all his heart and his heart is good, sensible, generous. A sturdy Gascon of Nîmes, he loves an occasional bull fight. "They please me," he once declared with habitual caution, "more than do some other spectacles that are supposed to be pleasant." The "other spectacles" included nothing not mentionable. M. Le President, though a bachelor, is accounted among the most celibate of that...
...Well, we talked about fishing," said the Governor using his widest gubernatorial smile. "In deference to the ladies we kept off politics and other controversial subjects. . . . The President and Mrs. Coolidge are very delightful...
...Indulged in many a quiet smile as Premier Baldwin squelched several well-meaning bishops who attempted to intervene in the coal strike. (See below...
After the first set Mrs. Mallory could still produce the flash of her square, sudden smile; after the second set she looked suddenly darker; she played the third set with dogged courage, the perspiration running down into her eyes. Helen Wills was as pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time...
Putting aside such thoughts, Rudyard Kipling received the gold medal with a smile, spoke a few words of courteous acceptance which circled the world's cables: "Recognition by one's equals and betters in one's own craft is a reward of which a man may be unashamedly proud. The fiction that I am worthy of that honor be upon your heads. . . . Yet at least the art that I follow is not an unworthy one. For fiction is truth's elder sister. Obviously, no one in the world knew what truth was until some...