Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxed and expansive mood, he let his broad smile travel across the room and offered a few homely reflections for direct quotation. Said the President: "I have been a very close student of the presidency of the United States and also of the individual Presidents who have occupied the place since Washington's time, and my reason for not running again is based on the fact that I don't think that any man, I don't care how good he is, is indispensable...
...Austerity. By then, Stafford Cripps was in a way the most powerful man in Britain. As Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister for Economic Affairs, he ruled the cupboard, stomach and pocketbook of every Briton. Prim and trim, he peered coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that...
...began reading. Just as he was recounting the feats of Paul Revere and the compliments of Paul Dever, a crowd of legionnaires and citizens, all ablaze in oversized Taft buttons, surged down Garden Street from the Northwest. Soon Senator Taft strode into sight, his face set in a tight smile...
...great American satirist As the last bastion in defense of the vanishing American man, he, almost alone, valiantly bore the struggle on his capable shoulders. With little help but a great deal of sympathy from his own species he struck terrible blows at the gods of matrimony, offering a smile of hope to the beleaguered American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist now gambols about his new-found Elysian fields along with the movie moguls and advertisers, caught...
...more perceptive girls observe behind Taylor's smile the strain of running a financially shaky institution which is further burdened by irrational attacks, plastering the girls with names like "irresponsible debutants" or "junior communists." That Taylor can maintain his good humor to the students at the same time he is fighting off the sensationalists is a minor miracle. And although Taylor's familiarity may be disconcerting at first, it seems natural when one realizes that his manner is in no way affected...