Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...premeditated murder masked by a toothy smile. The Nation had taken a heavy blow. The casualties crept from rumor into uglier-rumor: hundreds on hundreds of Americans had died bomb-quick, or were dying, bed-slow...
...floor red-room study, he talked to the Cabinet, then brought in the Congressional leaders -among them, on his first visit to the White House in many a moon, aging, croak-voiced Senator Hiram Johnson of California, oldest of the Isolationists. The President was deadly serious. There was no smile. The lines in his face were deeper...
This evening, Vag had decided, he was going to get something done. Something concrete. Something definite. He was going up to read a book. Something intellectual, he concluded, with a smile of self-satisfaction. No more of this time-wasting for the Vagabond. Tomorrow he was going to start rationing out his time. Every minute was going to mean something, something he could remember in years to come and say, "That moment I really lived. That moment I was happy...
...gaudy, athletic Hilario Camino Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...
...Life (Columbia) is unfair to luscious Loretta Young. It requires her to be "a bundle of muscles and a smile." Soft-voiced, convent-schooled Miss Young, now 28 and a veteran cinemactress, can supply the smile but not the muscles...