Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within four days and 23 hours after LeMay got his orders, Rosie's B-29s were bombing targets in Korea. LeMay almost worked up a pleased smile at this achievement,-then nearly bit through his pipestem when he heard that his high-bombers had been used, as they were never intended to be, in low, front-line support...
...Notes. In the column, "This England," the magazine regularly passes on to readers with an amused smile such deadpan comments on manners & morals as "The true story of the worst criminal in London's history. An admirably ghoulish play suitable for all the family. From poster for Shepherd's Bush Empire...
Visitors who could not catch the fast flow of German words and wit found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
...before everybody"); 3) patience ("She never gives up until you are able to do it"); 4) wide interests ("She brings in outside ideas and helps us to apply what we learn in our everyday lives"); 5) good manners ("There was something about his voice and his smile that made me feel good clear down to my stomach"); 6) fairness ("She gives you exactly what you deserve"); 7) sense of humor ("She puts some fun into each day so school does not seem so monotonous"); 8) good disposition ("I'm sure she must have a temper, as most people...
Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...