Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...MacDonald Government had not even yet disavowed the term "humbug," but Prime Minister Bennett with appropriate forbearance shook Mr. Thomas' hand at parting with a tight little smile. As the train chuffed out, Jim fairly carolled to correspondents...
...equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other's teams. In 1925 and 1926 when he had bad teams, Jones refused to quit. He held on till 1927, when his team beat Brown, Army, Dartmouth, Maryland, Princeton, Harvard. Yale football graduates remember with a smile one of his characteristic dressing room before-the-game orations: "You stand by me. and I'll stand by you. If we win we win, if we lose we lose...
...look of gratified curiosity on their guests' faces when they met the four famous brothers evoked a smile from Groucho. "I see that you're easily pleased," he began...
Russia's Roosevelt. "Glimpsed from afar Stalin seems cold and harsh," cabled Correspondent Lyons, "but at close range his outstanding feature is a broad smile almost as full of teeth as Roosevelt's and, like Roosevelt's, overshadowed by his shaggy mustache. He speaks slowly . . . with broad, oriental gestures. . . . His mind seems automatically to organize its materials into simple forms and words comprehensive to any working man. . . . Stalin and [War Commissar Clemence] Voroshilov [present during the interview] addressed each other by the familiar 'thou'. . . . Intimacy and informality pervade [Stalin's] entire establishment . . . immaculately clean...
...What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall keep me from the business of solving crimes...