Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings sell considerably better than the old ones. He now lives comfortably in Morristown, N.J. with his wife and four children. He has become more & more intellectual about his paintings, and it makes him smile a little. "I was always against the intellectuals. It's good to be against 'em until you are one," he says. "Then...
Bernard Clark was "rarther a presumshious man," but after one glance at Ethel he "turned a dark red." When Mr. Salteena ("lapping up his turtle soup") congratulated him on his "sumpshous house," Bernard proved himself a true aristocrat. "He gave a weary smile and swallowed a few drops of sherry wine. It is fairly decent he replied...
Code of Ethics. Flanked by two other lawyers, Bill Boyle strode confidently into the small third-floor Capitol committee room of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. For 20 minutes the photographers and newsreel cameramen hovered around him. He smiled a relaxed smile for the lenses, his broad Irish face showing few signs of his 49 years, except for an accordion-like rippling of chins. North Carolina's pale old Senator Clyde Hoey, Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, arrived promptly at hearing time, smiling and looking more than ever like Arthur Train's unforgettable Mr. Tutt in his dark frock...
...middle age, a Belgian painter named James Ensor once complained that he was "infected with respectability." It bothered him, he said, that well-bred young ladies who used to turn their backs on him "now smile at me with all their teeth." But if Ensor became respectable, it was the age that had changed, not Ensor. He kept on painting some of the most ghoulishly disagreeable canvases of modern times-and heard himself hailed as Belgium's greatest 20th-century artist. Last week, two years after his death at 89, Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
They both gazed at each other for some minutes with sparkling eyes. Neither smiled, but it seemed that both were about to smile...