Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They try," said Truman with a smile, "but they don't get away with...
...Evans, while the TV people fussed and stewed. On camera at last, he led the way through the library's long corridors, discoursed on its treasures and memories, exuded a candidate's charm, his speech colloquial and homely, his accent as broad as the Missouri River, his smile glowing and real. Excerpts: ¶ On how to recommend laws: "Well, sir, you write 'em down in a message, you try to think things out and see what'd be best for the country, then you make a message on it and send it down to the Congress...
...whether the electrician with the weak heart died from walking up a flight of stairs, a stomach full of iced beer, or an overdose of marital relations in which he indulged at least four times a week: no matter why he died, he must have died with a smile on his face...
Invited to shed some light on why Director John Huston stomped off the set of A Farewell to Arms in a rancorous farewell to Producer David O. Selzniclc last April, Farewell Scriptwriter Ben Hecht smiled the smile of a man who can distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...
...towering as he is. The highlights of any such Graustarkian foolishness usually, though strangely, come when Graustark momentarily seems real. Olivier does the trick, facing Marilyn's gee-whiz antics on their carriage-borne way to Westminster Abbey, when he cracks the faintest smile in film history. Marilyn does not achieve it when she cracks a glycerin tear in supposedly stunned awe of the choir-thundering coronation sequence...