Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in his native Iowa with his third-party campaign, Wallace slogged along on his crusade. He looked tired and sullen; his hair was now almost white. Seeing him wandering aimlessly around hotel lobbies, old friends came up to him with a smile, and tried to talk. They soon gave up and just stared. Wallace stared back and then wandered on, heavy-bodied, restless and moody...
...gambit and slapped his notebook closed with a loud crack. It was the right thing to do, for right away his row was clapping and the whole class caught on when the professor reached the door. Dr. Fairexam (office hours Mondays and Fridays) footnoted the applause with a smile and Vag congratulated himself for his foresight. He had saved the hour...
James Barrie said of James's smile: "It brought one down like Leatherstocking's Killdeer ... it was a part of him chuckling at the other parts of him." But James was always getting into trouble with his cumbersome shyness. Once in Europe at a table d'hôte, he ordered a bottle of wine in order to get up nerve enough to talk to the lady beside him, then spilled it on her. She forgave him, and he ordered another bottle-and spilled that one on her also...
...Fotinopoulou had been "taken away," they decided that he was a "fascist" and they fired four shots into Eugenia's swollen belly. Fotinopoulou came back from his labors for the enemy to find his wife dying. "This happened to me," he said, "just as life was beginning to smile...
...better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor to do, by making him something of a jaunty rake...