Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-election diplomatic reception in Djakarta last week, a Western newsman remarked to Nationalist Party Leader Ali Sastroamidjojo: "I reckon you are pleased with the way things have turned out." Retorted the ex-Premier with a smile: "I reckon...
...records for a one-man show in New York.* To celebrate his 731st performance, he threw a champagne party for the entire audience. At the intermission 120 magnums of French champagne and 50 trays of canapés appeared, along with 24 waiters from the Waldorf. With a bittersweet smile, Borge said, "This is the happiest and costliest evening of my life...
...first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He moves like a sleepwalker; his smile is that of a man sucking a lemon; his speech is frequently lost in a thicket of syntax: his eyes pop from their sockets or sink so deep in their bags that they seem to be peering up at the camera from the bottom of twin wells. Yet, instead of frightening...
...time, Dalmia was pledging his life to the service of the poor. He could afford to. For this skinny little man with a split-melon smile had amassed an empire which controlled one-sixth of all Indian industry, ranged from banks to coal mines, insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial...
Arguing against coexistence, Samuel Scars warned that behind "the grandmotherly cap so recently put on by Mr. Bulganin, one might see the greedy eyes and sly smile of the wolf." An enthusiastic claque clapped loudly at this, encouraging general assent from the other listeners. As Scars went on, however, the organized cheering section became more and more lonely. When he cited authority for unmasking Soviet aggression, naming David Lawrence as "a fearless American writer," Scars was forced to pause until the laughter died...