Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valencia hospital. She had sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
...some obscure statistician, hard at work under a green eye-shade in a dusty room, came up with a monumental discovery. Fifty-three per cent of all marrying Radcliffe girls had Harvard men for husbands! The CRIMSON could do nothing but make a grimace that would pass for a smile, and the day after the discovery, it stated CRIMSON policy on Radcliffe in an editorial, called "The Mating Call...
After that C. Blevins Davis strode forward holding the watering can of wealth. The rocky pathway he had endured for so long turned verdant and fruitful, and headwaiters stepped forth softly to greet him and smile with lowered eyes. He became a patron of the arts and sponsored a show of new German paintings in Munich. He threw a reception and dinner party for his old neighbors, President & Mrs. Harry Truman, at his fabulous Missouri farm, frequently squired daughter Margaret to public functions...
...Italian government thought of an ingenious-and legal-dodge: instead of destroying the old planes, it transferred them to the Knights of Malta,* who are theoretically sovereign, issue their own passports, send diplomats to half a dozen Roman Catholic countries. Last week Rome admitted with a broad smile that three years ago the Italian government turned over 36 three-engined Savora-Marchetti bombers to the Knights, who converted them to ambulance planes. Recently, Italy turned 40. more bombers over to the Knights, with more to follow soon. Said an Italian official: "It would be a pity to destroy these perfectly...
...with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems to say: thanks to God's mercy, an Oedipus with a happy ending. And Mann is too good a pessimist not to conceal his own derisive smile...