Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marne, Mich, one day last fortnight, they came upon a handsome, square-shouldered man wearing a big, green, polka dot bow tie and a wide, bright, boyish grin. He stood astride the main exit, reaching out to shake hands with all who would come within his grasp. The smile and the green bow tie identified him as Gerhard Mennen Williams, governer of Michigan. "Look," murmured one woman to another as they pressed by, "he's getting grey hair already...
...pretty girls next door ought to sound. In the most sentimental of her hit records, Half as Much, her voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...Waterville, Me., an old gentleman of 82 sat gazing out of his window and smiling. The sight that pleased him so much was what he could see of the 21 big new Georgian buildings that are Colby College. People in Waterville have become used to the old man's smile. "Every time I look up there," says he, "I just bubble over...
...shall rise and smile and go away...
...decrepit that he is kicked out to make room for stronger men. Back in the city, utterly disillusioned by his wasted life, he is promptly attacked by a new enemy-death. Mustering his last reserves of discipline and courage, Drogo meets this fatal enemy with a brave smile. As he sees it, in his last moments, death only means that "The worst is over and they [i.e., the facts of life] cannot cheat you any more...