Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth forever. The man cursed with the burden of perpetual life on earth has haunted enough imaginations to produce scores of folk tales, dramas and novels. He now reappears in Pär Lagerkvist's latest book. Those who know the other works (Barabbas, The Eternal Smile) of Sweden's 1951 Nobel Prizewinner will find what they expect-psychological and mystical insights, told in nursery-plain prose and seeking to justify the ways...
...source explained that "eight is nothing more than two cubed. Two is the most fundamental of all numbers, while three is quite obviously a symbol. We know all about those symbols," he added with a smile, "and who would think up something like that if it wasn't one of those Harvard kids...
...everything a thing?" the girl asked naively. He sighed with exasperation, then broke into a smile...
...administer justice, but I can do something else - I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of-nations." She spoke for seven minutes, and her appearance was one of matronly composure, warmed by her famed smile...
...tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose interest was still further excited by rumors that...