Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the smile and the seersucker suit extended a big hand. "I'm glad you're here," he said simply. The trim, high-domed man in the brownish-purplish suit answered: "I'm glad to be here...
Nicely pointed sequence: Case-hardened Saboteur Lloyd, taxi-bound for evil doings at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, observes the foundered Normandie at her Hudson River pier, indulges in a slow, sly, satisfied smile as the wounded liner passes from view...
...satisfied smile wreathed the jowls of chunky, brick-solid little Congressman Albert Engel of Muskegon, Mich., a passionate and indefatigable private investigator whose only other hobby is bricklaying. In the smile was a hint of what Engel believed: at least part of the trouble at Brewster was what happens when a few greedy men get their hooks in a company...
Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy. Nothing fit; everything was missing; the movers unquestionably had broken the last piece of china. As housewives always say: If I ever live through this day, I'll never move again. . . . In the evening newsmen tried to talk...
...leave college in almost every case do not come back after the war. You can imagine how it would look to them after the reality they have been through. I should not want any soldier for a pupil. We might not agree," Copey commented with a thin smile...