Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Caesar, who observed: "To me, it's a really heartbreaking thing. But when a star starts to grow, there comes a time when a star must go on by itself." Producer Liebman, looking at the photographers, said to both of his stars: "Let's all smile...
Extra police would be needed, the stationmaster at Waterloo Station was warned: Billy Graham was coming to London. The stationmaster smiled a British stationmaster's smile. "Never mind," he said, "we've always been able to handle the crowds when Mr. Churchill arrives." Next day a harried police sergeant pulled bobbies off traffic details outside the station. Inside, full-throated singing echoed under Waterloo's dingy skylight, and a surging mass of 2,000 Londoners hoisted children to shoulders, waved Bibles, and clambered up on anything handy for a look at a tall, grinning American with wavy...
...women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing to see him for long stretches, old friends would frequently renew acquaintance with a happy smile and the affable greeting: "Hello, you old s.o.b. Been in the jug again?" The answer, all too often...
...hardly looked like even Harvard's idea of a Harvard president. A spare, soft-spoken man, frugal in word and gesture, he presents a front that nothing seems to ruffle, a calm sort of dignity that only now and then unbends for the friendly smile or the quiet flash of humor. Yet his face is scarcely lined, his hair has only a few flecks of grey, and his springy step is more like that of a sophomore late for class than that of a man in charge of nine separate faculties, more than 3,000 teachers and scholars...
...disorder, Scelba soon made himself known as a man of action and made himself a large crop of enemies, including many democrats who disapprove his harsh methods, and collected in his scrapbooks more than 100,000 caricatures (few flattering) of his short, stubby figure and broad eye-twinkling smile. Scelba is regarded as the Christian Democrats' prime advocate of sterner measures against the Communists, who now ride higher than ever in Italy...