Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manly Smile. Each chapter is constructed as rigidly as a classical sonnet around a single major "hazard" to the hero or heroine, and invariably ends just as death's jaws close. Serial writers ran out of hazards years ago, have been working switches on them ever since; the loose cotter pin on the stagecoach, for example, has been used an estimated 7,000 times...
39th Generation. The little man with the grave manner and impish smile, courtly graces and arrogant attitudes, had waited long to become cock of the Arab walk. He was not likely to risk losing that position...
Majestic House. Knowing that Wilhelmina was not in good health, her people were not surprised last week but they were profoundly moved. Said Mrs. Bet van Beeren, 46-year-old Amsterdamer: "I can remember her walking through the streets of Amsterdam 25 years ago, always with a smile and a hand outstretched. She was democratic, but majestic. She was the House of Orange, which is Holland...
...jaunty thin man with the toothy smile had done it again. In Panama's first presidential elections in eight years, demagogic Arnulfo Arias, now 47, had won back the presidency...
...time he acquired a nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever imagine their college without...