Word: smiles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frozen Smile. As host, Earl Warren spoke first. Three weeks earlier he had called Ingalls' pre-election tactics "arrogant" and "insulting." Now, goaded again on his home ground, Warren detoured pointedly from his earnest good-of-the-party theme. "We have our problems," he said, "because we have extremists of the right-those who would freeze our nation into the status quo with whatever inequalities go with it." Then he read off, one by one, the liberal planks of the 1948 G.O.P. platform. "If this platform has been vetoed," he said, "I would like to know by whose authority...
Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
Both sides made pretty speeches. In Majorca, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons announced: "The two most anti-Communist nations in Europe today are Turkey and Spain." Said pudgy Mayor Antonio Simarro of Barcelona, with a beaming smile: "We are looking forward to our future alliance...
...rehearsal seat, Rudolf Bing blinked at the unscheduled little scene on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An impromptu chorus of stagehands was standing among the singers, bellowing Happy Birthday to You, and looking at him. Bing recalled that it was indeed his birthday, his soth. He rose with a reflex smile. "Thank you, thank you," he said. "Those," he added wryly, "were the first words this afternoon that I could understand...
...supple expressiveness of his face is more like Charlie Chaplin's. This is especially true of a certain browbeaten look he sometimes puts on, as though he were just a poor old gaffer at the mercy of all comers. This martyred look will break up into a smile if it is challenged, but sooner or later it will be resumed with a distant glance at nothing and a sighed "Well, well, you never can tell." The look has definite functions. In his New York apartment, it is a signal that the judge is bored with the conversation...