Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after the cat itself had faded from sight. That smile was not very substantial. There cannot be a smile without...
This week the German leaders met with the three Military Governors in the ex-SHAEF war room in Frankfurt's big Headquarters Building. After six turbulent hours, General Clay emerged with a broad smile. Said he: "It's all settled." He specified: "There are no remaining differences either between Germans or ourselves or between the German political parties...
...stuck with the squash or turnips," complained one gal, "You may not get a smile the whole evening...
Frankie Waldron, with his wavy brown hair, his snappy clothes and his electric smile, was as handsome as a junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
...Harvey and I sit in the bars," reminisces Elwood P. Dowd dreamily, "and we have a drink or two and play the jukebox. Soon the faces of the other people turn toward mine and smile . . . Then I introduce them to Harvey...