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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a benign smile on his face and ready answers on his lips, Robert Alphonso Taft plodded through the Northwest last week, seeking the votes of delegates and the good will of men. Working 18-hour days (his smile was as big at 11 p.m. as it was at 6 a.m.), the Senator from Ohio held press conferences before breakfast, met coveys of politicians, students, businessmen and farmers, ate fried chicken at box suppers, and all the while held a steady bead on his main target: the Truman Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quite a Lad | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...jury box to freedom stood a great buxom solidset woman from the American Legion Auxiliary. She pinned me with an American flag made of heavy paper and corrugated so that it waved in my buttonhole. Then she shook my hand heartily and welcomed me to America with a smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Citizen Is Made | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed as one man. Elizabeth shook hands with the Prime Minister. Then, followed by Philip, she walked gravely along the line of Privy Councilors, shaking hands and murmuring a word to each. The Argonaut's eight crewmen disembarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elizabeth II | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Success Story | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub, and two dimples when you smile." Add to that a firm, small, voluptuous figure. Charles II took her home with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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