Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cool Head, Ready Smile. It is deemed highly improper for a man to announce openly that he wants to be President. There are no campaign speeches, no posters, no sound trucks. The approved method of campaigning is for a candidate to move through the legislative corridors, shaking innumerable hands, and murmuring that he would not dream of aspiring to the presidency. In 1920, the late great Georges Clemenceau said of the new President, Paul Deschanel, elected that year: "He has a beautiful future behind...
...President must be just the right blend: a pleasing, unblemished personality who will keep a cool head and a ready smile in France's sea of troubles. He must, of course, be dedicated to the republican principle, in good health, intelligent and tactful, not too young or too old, with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive...
...crisply professorial. Director Theodore Gershuny had good luck with two of the play's liberals, Homet and McGregor, but he should remind Steven Banker that he is playing a hot-headed college radical. Banker is neither earnest nor intent enough; he appears always on the verge of a smile...
...with the best of them. In a hospital, Frederika held the hand of a dejected soldier whose head was so swathed in bandages that only his eyes peeped through. The Queen listened quietly to his fears about being scarred and ugly, and answered all his worries with a radiant smile. "You could never be ugly," she told him, "not with such beautiful eyes...
...Manhattan, where he went down to the Queen Elizabeth to greet his wife and daughter, Zinaida (a Moscow University professor of law), Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was a honey bear to photographers, gave them his best peace-offensive smile...