Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm problem up the hill countless times, only to have it roll back and crush him anew each & every time. Trapped in a six-year mesh of cumbrous grabbag legislation, alternately burned by droughts* and swamped by bounteous Nature's overproduction, still he comes up with a dogged smile, pushes his greying cowlick out of his eyes, and tackles the irresistible forces with new enthusiasm. But still U. S. farmers rate him low on all popularity polls...
Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
Last week, however, it was Pratt & Whitney's turn to smile all over its corporate face. Over its East Hartford, Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less per horsepower than the Allison, it could fit into small pursuit planes as snugly as a cartridge in a rifle breech...
...British cinemagoers are still being moved to smiles & tears by the smile-&-tear jerker, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The school pictured in the film is Repton, a famed public school in Britain's Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement...