Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when Franklin Roosevelt stepped up and took the oath of office, he was a national hope. A month later he was a national hero. He had won the heart of a frightened nation by the height at which he held his head, the breadth to which his smile expanded, by self-confidence that seemed almost Olympian. Seldom since then had his self-confidence failed him. It enabled him to propose and get Congress to approve frank experiments. It gave him courage to ask Congress for sums of money that no other peacetime President had ever dared...
...Herbert Marshal is so taken with Margaret Lindsay that he has to ask Ann Harding for his freedom is not made quite clear. In the cinema, a smile from the villainous Margaret turns the trick. In real life the trick would be turned down the sink if unfaithfulness were as unattractive as it is in "The Lady Consents." But if you can swallow this one incredibility, you will enjoy he picture...
...sweet, curly-haired child; about four she was, with the lovely innocence of youth staring from her large brown eyes. Toddling along snow filled Cowperthwaite Street, her red sled trailing majestically behind, she furnished the pause that refreshes to Dunstermen hurrying to classes. Her kindly smile sent many of them back to their own childhood, when life was not a mass of troubles, and happiness a thing possessed, not sought after...
...Greeks in the Square to buy a Times and polish my shoes. And all the while the bootblack did polish my shoes I would read but could not do so for the black-eyed, black-haired wife of the Greek did look at me and smile, making me feel much uneasy. Whereupon, at length, the bootblack turning to his wife spoke in Greek something like the following: "My woman, why are you acting so?" Whereupon, and now laughing all the more (but pretending to be concerned only with the hat she was cleaning) she did answer in Greek: "Heavens, George...
...perfectly satisfied with our present lineup,' he continued, "and there are no more deals in the offing nor is there any desire for other players. Of course," he added with a smile, "we wouldn't refuse a good player it he were thrust upon...