Word: smiledness
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My dinner companions smiled at the Harvard senior at the table by the door. Then, after each one had taken a free button from a display on the table, the senior asked us to sign a petition "for the union."
"The Harvard coach is bald, the Harvard coach is bald," the Lynah fashionplates screamed at Cleary last year as they have for the past 17 years. And Cleary, the good sport, patted his head, smiled and waved to the mobs. They roared their appreciation.
Luck? There's no such thing, according to these gamblers. Almost all of them have ascended from poverty to wealth, but none particularly feel that fortune has smiled on them. As Minnesota Fats says, "When you're poor you don't expect nothin' from life, and when you don't...
When Gordie stepped out of the Holy Cross locker room and into the cold night, the kids cheered. The parents smiled. Gordie waved and then went into another room for the press conference.
In any event, Iowa voters were in no mood to be patronized on the economy, as Pete du Pont learned to his mild distress. Visiting a weekly newspaper in Onawa, du Pont depicted the stock market crash as a "vote of no confidence" by millions of small investors who did...