Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians were dumfounded. Molotov finally managed a sickly smile. Shaken, he finished out his proposal. But the air of smug satisfaction was gone...
...smile came over Vag's face; he rushed into the bedroom and started packing his bag. "No Crime Monday, Washington's birthday," he shouted to his roommate as he closed the door and headed West...
...great literature, brought in actors to put on comedy skits. The judge haunted welfare groups, asking them to help him rustle up food and clothing. "There's no question," said one official, "that Härringer is the most gifted beggar in town." Said the judge with a smile: "We have to do the giving before we have the right to ask anything of these youngsters...
They were not alike. Student Gogarty was bibulous, ebullient, indulgent (or, as Joyce tagged him in the first sentence of Ulysses: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan . . ."). Student Joyce was afflicted by "seedy hauteur" and rarely allowed "those thin lips of his [to] cream in a smile . . . the most damned soul I ever met." They shared rooms in an old tower outside Dublin until Gogarty upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself...
Though Owen's wit and showmanship are not entirely reserved for the lecture platform, his talents are displayed there to best advantage. The figure of a slim, slightly graying man, with an engaging smile, nervous gesture, and rapid-fire delivery is becoming increasingly well-known. In his office, however, Owen is far removed from the elevated atmosphere of the auditorium. Besieged with phone calls, his desk piled high with papers, the Chairman of the History Department "is just trying to hang on through the winter...