Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mona Lisa del Giocondo had had any idea of the lengths to which critics would go in trying to explain her enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, she might have split her sides laughing. For in 450 years the smile has been variously interpreted as sly and tender, coquettish and aloof, cruel and compassionate, seductive and supercilious. At Yale University last week an eminent British physician, visiting professor of the history of medicine, coolly swept aside all such adjectives and offered his own theory: the lady was smiling with "placid satisfaction" because she was pregnant...
Behind the colorless and hollow names of Hattie S., 58, Walter B., 42, and two-year-old Ellen "with auburn hair, greenish eyes, dimples and an impish smile" are shattered, hungry, confused, forsaken, and pained men, women, and infants. Their uncommon glory is to be the dregs of prosperity, the stagnant backwash of our land of freedom and liberty and forever free enterprise...
...Creature Was Stirring. In London, former Department Store Santa Claus T. T. Fisher-Brent complained in a letter to the Star that after one "youngster croaked in my ear his recital of wants, he soon slipped away with a big smile on his face and my wallet in his pocket...
Gold-Toothed Smile...
...works for months. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed the Iranian ambassador a stiff note warning of the danger of Iran's being involved in the "military adventures" of foreign circles." Voroshilov's visit was abruptly canceled; Ambassador Pegov stopped flashing his gold-toothed smile and packed for the trip home. The Soviet radio, in Persian language broadcasts, cried that "American warmongers will be masters of the country," and painted a gruesome picture of Iranians living in mud huts, forced to eat grass, date seeds and locusts because "everyone knows that the policy of militarizing the country...