Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles, Cuba and the Philippines, he was still only a first lieutenant...
...plane. Not unhappily, Elliott went back to Paris, had his ulcered stomach fitted out with an artificial duodenum, started writing. His sardonic War Birds helped start the cycle of wartime aviation books in the late '20s. Springs followed it with nine lesser stories (e.g., Leave Me with a Smile, Who Steals My Pants Steals Trash), which brought a total of $250,000 from such magazines as McClure's, and as bestsellers and scenarios...
With an eye on the estimated $235 million to be spent this year by U.S. tourists in Canada, the Dominion was determined to be the good host. For Courtesy to Tourists Week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce put on its best smile. In Ontario, the Department of Travel and Publicity got down to fundamentals. It bought 1,000 copies of a cookbook to pass out free to tourist camps and small hotels, "to raise the standard of food served as an added attraction to tourists...
Healing Touch. Dr. Fernald uses every standard psychological trick in the book to gain the confidence of her "patients." But more important, she really likes children. Young students, warped by years of being called "dumb," are greeted by a warm and sympathetic smile, a gentle, unhurried approach and the flattery of being talked to as equals. She has the same easy way with animals. There is always at least one dog and one cat in her Beverly Hills home, and she frequently tries to persuade students in her undergraduate psychology classes to find homes for the strays she picks...
...been picked by a critical boss-the Fuller Brush man whose $30-million-a-year beat she hoped to build up. From him she had learned the whole bag of Fuller rules: 1) dress neatly; 2) speak quietly; 3) never high-pressure, and 4) take a brushoff with a smile...