Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several U.S. citizens proved last week that they were not too old to learn: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt scotched a rumor that she would head the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Said Mrs. Roosevelt, with a smile of resignation: "I can't take a Government position, because of my being the President's wife- I found that...
...prophecies grew keener. In 1925 he saw other officers smile when he led the small Dutch Indies fleet far from its home waters-toward Malaya and Japan-to execute problems which involved many times the few ships actually in his command. "Don't fret," he would say, "the day will come when an English admiral, because of our superior knowledge of these waters, will ask us to command a combined fleet." The chief of the United Nations naval staff under Conrad Helfrich in Java this week is the Royal Navy's Rear Admiral A. S. E. Palliser...
...growing restrictions that affect our daily lives. In many sections, such as ours, where there is little or no defense work our economic security is severely threatened but there have been mighty few complaints. I have heard scores of men whose livelihood is gone completely, say with a smile, "That's o.k., we can take...
Suzuki-san probably would know who this speaker was: Major General Eugen Ott, German Ambassador to Tokyo. But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick. He would not know why General Ott was so warm whenever he mentioned the name of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore, the hero of this day of days...
...while he would come around. Everything about him-the angle of his heavily braided cap, the swing of his brown, curve-handled cane, the uptilt of his long black cigaret holder, the shine on his four stars and brown shoes-everything was always jaunty. The men watched for his smile: they usually...