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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Princess Zezette | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Miss Fontaine, in her performance of a girl whose shyness is pitiful to watch, is the best part of this movie. She spends a great deal of time listening entranced to Jourdan's piano playing and hiding behind curtains and doors, but manages to smile wistfully, even while sinning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...didn't look that bad to 20th Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck, who managed to smile bravely under the thumping. The court, said he, obviously had no thought of divorcement. "Movie stocks only dropped a point or so," said Zanuck. "If divorcement had been ordered, stocks would have gone down ten points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Independents' Day | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

There's nothing like a feminine smile and a girlish yell to dress up a dreary picket line, as strikers at the Squires meat packing plant in East Cambridge will find out this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Democracy League, HLU, Bolster Picket Lines | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

Last week, he pasted a neat miniature of Molotov in his album: "Cannonball head . . . comprehending eyes . . . slab face ... a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston at Work | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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