Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy! Stay away from him! Wipe dat smile offen his face...
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, the taciturn young secretary was invited to stay on at the White House. Soon the two were warm friends. "If I could only make you smile, George," said the Rough-Rider Colonel, "I could make you President of the United States." Roosevelt 1 could not make George Cortelyou smile but he could and did make him first Secretary of the new Department of Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally...
Nevertheless, it was with only a faint smile that businessmen read a melodramatic pronouncement by Business Pundit B. C. Forbes in his Hearst column last week...
...insists he really enjoys testing planes. Only protection he wears in power dives is a regulation safety belt. He never shouts while diving, unconvinced that it relieves the strain. Tall, slightly hunched, with brown hair and eyes, a ready smile, he makes his home in New York with his wife and son, lives well on his large earnings...
...tall, heavy-framed man with powerful shoulders and a slow, enigmatic smile, Orlando Weber may have been thought icy by the few hirelings that ever saw him. But with his friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further...