Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens have already had opportunity to see most of the chief delegates. One by one they have come to Washington on the invitation of President Roosevelt to discuss their problems, pose for a ritual photograph in the White House portico while the Roosevelt smile grew progressively fainter...
...Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing the placid melancholy of his round face. With deliberation he closed his right eye although continuing to hold the telescope in front of him. The eye should be blind, he thought. Never mind. It's a good half-Nelson. "Gentlemen! A half-Nelson...
...taking a shower following a game over the Druid Hill's Course in Atlanta and "Brother Gene" sauntered in after a very distressing round in the high go's, but typical of his rebound from distress, he turned on his shower and with that wonderful smile of his, said, "Well-there's one thing certain-I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
...friends, are Frank Aydelotte's hobbies. Golf he shoots under So. Work he does at high speed. Bald, far from handsome (his large ears are always a target at the annual Swarthmore ''Hamburg Show''), he is dynamic and persuasive, with a disarming sunny smile. He talks forcefully, sometimes lurching a shoulder forward, sometimes clasping hands on his stomach and swaying. He it was who in 1918 persuaded the Rhodes Trust to let new Scholars be chosen by old ones, and got the job of managing it for himself. In 1929 he pounded on Parliament...
...Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from the central balcony of Benito Mussolini's huge Palazzo Venezia as signal that the Grand Council was meeting. Before seeing Mussolini, Premier Goring paid a little call which made oldtime diplomats smile. In Rome, visiting his father-in-law, was handsome young Prince Philip of Hesse. Premier Göring brought him word that Adolf Hitler had just appointed him president of the Province of Hesse-Nassau. Prince Philip's father-in-law is Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy...