Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAVES have already taken over many shore jobs for the Navy. They dole out pills with a big smile in the Naval hospitals, take over desks all over America to let their male shipmates go to sea. The WAVES run control tower, pack parachutes, service planes, run ship stores, keep pay accounts and in general make themselves useful...
...also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard way: outweighed (by 35 lb.), outreached...
...family Chicagoan, Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor - a rich man's son, product of St. Mark's and Yale, onetime investment banker, and by no means a wild-eyed New Dealer. Sewell Avery rose from his chair, his thin lips parting in an amiable smile, and courteously, gravely asked the U.S. Government to step in. The door closed...
...through one-way streets, opened new routes on virgin streets, got thoroughly lost. In East London an errant double-decker tried to squeeze under a low bridge, sliced its top off (nobody was riding on top). The driver, long weary of inaction, surveyed the wreckage with a blissful smile...
Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...