Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the most about I.P.R.'s inner workings was Edward Clark Carter, 73 (Harvard, class of 1900), a onetime Y.M.C.A. careerist who joined I.P.R.'s staff in 1926, became secretary general (1933-45) and then executive vice chairman. When Carter was summoned before the committee, he smiled a gentle, professorial smile and gave rambling answers. Lawyer Morris undertook to show that Carter had a long-standing softheartedness toward Soviet Russia. He had been instrumental in setting up a Russian Council of I.P.R. (with Stalin's brother-in-law, A. S. Svanidze, as a member), had made seven...
...Portland, Ore., photographers gathered to record the second birthday of Nicholas Delano Seagraves, first great-grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Young Nicholas, a husky 30-pounder, obliged by mounting a one-eared toy donkey and flashing a smile that had more than passing resemblance to great-grandmother Eleanor. "He loves to eat," said his mother, the former "Sistie" Dall, "and there isn't anything he doesn't like. He has all the teeth he's supposed to have, but I don't know just how many that...
...scarcely has time even to read the letters he gets, or smile at the way they are addressed. Last week he was collecting 14,000 volumes for Austin's Samuel Huston College (for Negroes), which, he heard, was about to lose its accredited standing for lack of a big enough library. And when that job is done Henry Dunn plans to do something about Korea. "You know," says he, "in this country there are enough books to educate the whole world...
...knew that it was yearning for a smile...
...truthfulness with ourselves ... as we are put to the erection of the same brotherly city, beyond our divisions and easy denials. For we are the beginning of a renewal of the world . . . the modern world is not yet, and it will seek itself until the Face and the Smile of God, through the dynamic and active presence of Christians . . . have led it in its yet misshapen and scattered search. The modern world will create itself progressively when the Church, forgetting its limitations of the past, stripped of its clothing from the Middle Ages, reinvigorated by the Evangelical Vision, will have...