Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack's friend," Tommy went on, addressing himself to the meeting, "and Jack is my friend." Chomping on a cigar, Boss Pollack half restrained a smile...
...gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them...
...Dewey who last week carried on his own crusade to capture New York for the Republicans. Audiences recalling his 1948 campaign manner found that the waxiness of his smile seemed to have melted, giving way to genuine friendliness and humor. He was self-assured, easily articulate, and clearly the Republicans' smoothest TV star (Dewey plans at least twelve TV appearances before the election, will also join Eisenhower on a whistle-stop tour of New York later this month). On TV last week, he continued his fight to show New York's minority groups that the Democrats' record...
...Quizmaster Bert Parks is an unassuming fellow who lives quietly in suburban Greenwich, Conn, with his wife & three children. On the air, he displays an almost manic cheerfulness; as he capers about the stage, shoots his eyebrows, winks roguishly at lady contestants and bares a toothy smile, he lights up the TV screen like rhinestone jewelry. Last week hardworking Parks added Double or Nothing (Mon., Wed., Fri., 2 p.m., CBS-TV) to the list of giveaway shows (Stop the Music, Break the Bank) on which he has given away yachts, swimming pools, mink coats, scholarships and round-the-world cruises...
...PLUMP young woman, strolling along the path in the sun, with a face of such tranquil, unreflecting enjoyment that she seemed like one of those drunks who, at the end of the party, do not even need to smile from their trance, stopped, gazed, gradually took in the scene and at last, with a look of such conscious wisdom that it seemed to say to itself "Ain't I a clever responsible person?", rescued the baby, carried it to the rug, and carefully, maternally laid it flat on its back...