Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones which almost invariably followed) were rewarded with a dreamy sense of Confucius' "peace among the people...
Last week some U.S. citizens were manfully gulping these traditional concoctions. For spring fever was epidemic in the land. In Washington, ex-Farm-Boy Harry Truman sniffed spring flowers (see cut), posed with a sunny smile under sunny Washington skies...
Gaitered Ghost. One by one, Lewis' fellow excursionists fail to find Heaven to their liking. Most outspoken: the liberal theologian, a fat, gaitered ghost with a cultured voice and "a bright clerical smile," who clings to his benign skepticism and open mind even in the forefields of Heaven. An old orthodox friend says to him: "We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facthood...
With a big smile and 18 brown wood pens with stub steel nibs (which he passed out to friends), Harry S. Truman signed the Employment Act of 1946. It was only a shadow of the original "full employment" bill, which contained Government assurance of a job to everybody who wanted one. But it might still, with luck, become almost as important as Harry Truman seemed to consider...
...became the first woman dean of Cornell's New York State College of Home Economics. She looked pretty austere when she arrived, with her hair done up in a bun, and no hat. But Cornell coeds soon found that the stern face softened easily into a friendly, crooked smile. Until Dean Blanding marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring she was the first to brave Cayuga's icy waters...