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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knight. When he had finished, the pen, the checkbook, and the smile on the prospect's face had vanished. Goodie left emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Goodie took on a couple of radio shows, including one tearjerker, an airing of personal problems known as "Knight Court" ("It was better than Mr. Anthony"). In 1946 Goodie turned his back on the bench, employed the formidable public-relations firm of Whitaker & Baxter (which taught Earl Warren to smile) and ran for lieutenant governor. Goodie gave the voters a sizzling exhibition of stumping and easily slid past his Democratic opponent on election day. But in Sacramento, he discovered that his job was no more exciting than being a judge. As presiding officer of the state senate, he frequently garbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...need worry about spirit in our camp," said he to one rainy-day crowd. "But there's one thing I worry about and I'd like you to worry about. Everyone must vote." Housewives shouted, "Hear, hear." "That's the stuff," replied Eden with a smile. "Please don't get overconfident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Hustings | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...stringy hair, and they had all just finished gulping down cookies and purple punch. What had happened to the usual somber atmosphere of "G-3"? The simple answer was provided by a patient standing near the door. "The volunteers have come," she said, almost breaking into a smile...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel and John G. Wofford, S | Title: The Mentally Ill: 200 Student Volunteers . . . | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...good a job on the French, for his detectives are extremely nonchalant and his lovers strangely enthusiastic. Jean-Lous Barrault (the butcher of butchers) crawls on his kness in his ecstatic quest of a married woman; and he, as well as Jean-Pierre Aumont, the milkman, display the irrespressible smile that refuses to take life seriously. Although Chief Inspector Bray could appear in almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however, played by Francoise Rosay and Michel Simon do an extremely good caricature of threadbare...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Drole de Dame | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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