Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great many political leaders today have a background that is legal . . . [They] approach problems from that angle, legal or logical. He approaches them from a human, emotional angle. He can just smile at people and they do try. He is not only your guy, but our guy. He's needed today from the world angle and from your national angle ... I go away refreshed and having drawn inspiration from that...
...returned to the public life for which she was trained. Some 500 of her sister's subjects gathered in the rain on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral as she went to attend a commemorative service there. They stood respectfully as she passed by, a gentle smile suffusing her face. They gave her no cheers, but from here and there in the crowd came a few encouraging words: "Good luck" and "God bless...
...Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth complied, but at their last meeting she was careful to shake Peter Townsend's hand in public with a smile that seemed to many onlookers a token of encouragement...
...equally formal gatherings at Clarence House. Her royal duties are less arduous than they once were, but she performs them all with conscientious care, managing to look always alert and interested during the windiest dignitary's speech, making her own speeches short and dignified, and flashing her warm smile discreetly where it is most needed. The greatest freedom she enjoys today is that of being able to go shopping alone with a lady in waiting in London's smartest shops. This pleasure, like others in the grown-up Princess' life, requires money that only a Princess...
...play, The Desk Set, after a reasonably bright start, goes steadily downhill by really going nowhere at all. As a feed-box for Shirley Booth, there is more to be said for it. She has seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again...