Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal belongings to his big new private town house at No. 69 Eaton Square, set off for a three-week holiday in the country. A crowd of Londoners standing outside No. 10 cheered Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin loudly, gave a special yip when he declared with a smile and a wave, "I am now a gentleman-at-large...
...voice, "one must be really clever. He would do best, perhaps, to follow my few primitive rules. As a "locus operandi" take, for instance, the Charles: an excellent feeding ground. The first trick should be the undulation of the hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate's car, a police whistle, and several companions...
...part, yes, with a smile and not a sorrow For we shall meet again beyond tomorrow...
...remember Professor Hill, the associate of Charles Eliot Norton, Nathaniel Shailer and their contemporaries. Dean Briggs, who died only three years ago, was known to--and loved by--the undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many an author and journalist of America today is proud to be listed among the pupils of Dean Briggs...
...Princes of the Church and with some of the books that rushed to market to capitalize on his misfortune. In return for his service to the Empire in the past and in appreciation of his conduct since abdication, it is not too much to hope that the Government will smile upon him as he prepares to enter the life he prefers...