Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scowls & Love. Twelve minutes after Churchill began speaking, Ernest Bevin shuffled in. Churchill stopped, cast a radiant smile across the aisle. Said he: "I am very glad to see the new Foreign Secretary sitting on the front bench opposite. I would like to say with what gratification I learned that the right honorable gentleman had taken on this high office." Bevin scowled. Few can pay compliments so gracefully as Churchill; few can receive them as gracelessly as Bevin. Later, when Labor members teased Bevin about his fondness for Churchill, he growled: "But I love him. I love...
...reading, Molotov smiled shyly and peered at the correspondents. The smile seemed to say: "Well, gentlemen?" A correspondent said: "Thank you, Mr. Molotov. Thank you very much." The newsmen then filed their stories and returned to the dreary Hotel Metropole, where the luggage of Jap diplomats and newsmen had already been piled on the stairs. It was 9 p.m. in Moscow, three hours before the beginning of Russia's second war with Japan...
...Ironpants." A longtime friend of Curtis LeMay was once asked whether he had ever seen the General smile. The answer: "I think so, but I can't remember when." LeMay talks in such a low voice that his staff say they have bent ears, none of them can remember hearing him raise his voice. This relaxed calmness was well illustrated one day during an air raid over Germany when a B-17 side gunner shouted over the intercom to Pilot LeMay: "Colonel, my guns won't work...
Because I had to take it and my father had to take it and Joe Doakes had to take it, do five more generations of Americans have to learn to wipe that smile off their ugly pusses? Sure, the Army would like a year to "inculcate" every man with "the Army...
...courtyard, where his dogs gnawed rotting carcasses (of animals, mostly). Sometimes he climbed into his throne (a wheel chair) and dispensed judgment in the good old Matabele way-flinging to the crocodiles a slave who had sipped the royal beer, or impaling an unfaithful wife. He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people...