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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Kitten on the Keys | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...this point, Perón, who had entered the room wearing his usual broad smile, had tears streaming down his cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: A Man's Reputation | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week they learned that the signals were changed. Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle let it be known that he (and therefore Harry Truman) was now for Jimmy Roosevelt. Boyle was no man to underestimate the crowd appeal of the name, the smile, the memory-waking voice. Said one party strategist: "George Luckey is awfully nice, but California is important to us. Jimmy Roosevelt can beat Earl Warren. Therefore Roosevelt is our man. It's just that simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Just that Simple | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...opening day, visitors slowly circled the room, later clustered in a corner to congratulate the artist, who favored each of them with a slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elegance | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Czernyha is engaged to a girl in Worcester. Yermakov has played on a House soccer team. Danes has taken two hour exams and received straight A's. Bajuk joined a College group listening to the Harvard-Stanford game and was the only one with a broad smile on his face. It was the first time he had heard of "football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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