Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press Secretary James Hagerty's news conference, reporters found a complete stranger sitting front and center. With a Little Jack Horner smile, Hagerty introduced his guest as Vernon Bradley, a real-estate man from Springfield, Mass. Bradley had come to Washington to see Dwight Eisenhower and to announce that he would run for Congress in Massachusetts' Second District. Added Hagerty: "The President wished him well...
...Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed toothpasty smile, showed portraits of his four greatest inspirations - "Bach, Beethoven, Paderewski . . . and my dentist...
...wild, 200-mile drive across Michigan, Dr. Small caught up with them at a beach cottage near Allegan. Jules was playing cards with two other men when Dr. Small entered the house. "Which one is Lack?" asked the dentist. "I'm Lack," said Big Jules, flashing his warmest smile and extending his gladhand. Then Dr. Small fired two bullets, and Lack dropped dead...
...smile includes the romantic tragedy he also knows to be an absurdity, and yet he cannot resist spraying it all with an almost cloying odor of Victor Hugo No. 5. But in an instant Ophuls will catch himself up with a comic grimace. There are vignettes of "le hunting,'' of an English youth on the grand tour, of an aged nymph at a ball, that almost break up the show with guffaws. Not to forget some wickedly amusing lines-e.g., "A woman can refuse jewels she hasn't seen," says the count's petite amie...
...Paris, Mendesès-France told reporters: "I have reason to smile." The only arguments left, said the British, were 1) whether the French would be allowed to keep a right of access to the port of Haiphong, and 2) how soon elections should be held in Viet Nam. The Communists wanted them soon, confident that electoral victory would win them the parts of Viet Nam that they had not got around to taking by force of arms. The French wanted elections late, hoping that in, say, 18 months, a stronger independent government might win the support of the Vietnamese...