Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House photographers approached Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who had taken no part in the campaign. "Haven't you got enough pictures of us?" asked the secretary. Said a photographer: "Yes, but another four years is just beginning." "But not for me," replied Forrestal with a grin...
Poulenc (he pronounces it heavily almost as Poolonka) likes to describe himself, with a fast, toothy grin, as "both a saint and a devil." Last year, his frothy, obstetrical opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias -in which one character changes sex on stage and another litters the footboards with a good share of his 40,000 babies-created the noisiest scandal in Paris since the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like the Rite, however, it is still going strong...
...Court, Londoners crowded into their first big auto show since war's end. They could look, but few could buy. Since Britain must export 75% of its cars, most of the new models were aimed at U.S. trade. They had the wide grillwork which Britons call "the Dollar Grin." Daimler's pastel green, 150-h.p. convertible, with hand-built body, was the show's most expensive car. In England, with a $10,000 tax, it costs $28,000. U.S. price: about...
...heard Truman speak in Bethlehem, and from what I could see of that crowd of 10,000, everyone was smiling. I myself wore a grin from...
...energy: "Someone should point out to the governor of New York that it was the 'dead hand' of Government which created the atomic bomb." His good temper was unfailing. Asked by New Haven reporters if he thought the ticket was going to win, he retorted with a grin: "Certainly. What do you think I'm running around...