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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Time & Tides | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Everyone knows the story from there. Too much of a sport to leave the games, he played them out, picking up two more in the course of his efforts. When he finished it was 9:35. The smile with which Lady Luck had beamed at Everett for four years suddenly turned to a dirty leer. He ran to Mem Hall and the proctor refused to admit him. He flunked the course, and thus out of college. His girl left him and his parents disowned him. And thus George Everett was started on the flashing road to ignominy...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Only Two Million More, Art, That's All | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...reported the case of a man, aged 30, suffering from depression, pains in the legs and sexual debility. He got one gold needle in the left chest (at point chungju) and in the back (at kaopang), and half an hour later headed home to his harem with a confident smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quick, the Needle! | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...clock, Honest Ave took his wife's arm and walked to his 1939 Lincoln Zephyr. The TV cameras asked him to do it again. He obliged, and this time, with a determined smile, reached out to pump the hand of a surprised Department of Sanitation streetcleaner. Then the Harrimans were off for the politician's tour of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Patrician on the Sidewalks | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, Director Eaton arrived in Florence to inspect paintings by 13 of the 32 Italian artists invited to submit them. When the pictures were unveiled, it seemed that a mistake had been made. Six of the portraits did not smile at all. The rest had, at best, sickly grins. Said Eaton: "None of these is any good for Forest Lawn. You'll notice all these paintings, even the smiling ones, have a kind of sad look and a definitely European face. Now, what I'm looking for is a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wanted: the American Smile | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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