Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skull with a Smile. Last week the S.S. Marine Carp got back to the U.S. bearing an archeological treasure. It was the skull of an eight-year-old boy whom Father J. Franklin Ewing, SJ. has posthumously named (60,000 years after death) Egbert. Most of the little cave boy's bones are still imbedded in a block of stone, but the skull is exposed. It has, thinks Father Ewing, "a very pleasant smile...
...dream?" are seldom answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...
...nephritis ("a kidney disease"), ran his blood pressure up to 214. Doctors advised him to make sure that his "insurance was all paid up" and then to get dressed for his funeral. After a week's "wallowing in self-pity," Mr. Englert "threw back [his] shoulders, put a smile on." Today, he is not only alive and happy, but his "blood pressure is down...
...friends came up to him with a smile and tried to talk. They soon gave up and just stared." Fiddlesticks...
...morality plays, serials unvaryingly make everything black & white. Hero & heroine are Good; villain and assistant villain (brain & brawn) are Evil. Love finds its strongest expression in a frank, manly smile. Sex never, never rears its snuggly head. (One serial director recalls that when Carole Landis first reared her chest in serials, it was sternly taped flat by the make-up department...