q17

[dubdobdee]

q17:
i: How is life if you just smile?
ii: What was charmed with smiles and soap?
iii: What subterranean objects displayed a lipless grin?
iv: If every fascist has a communist smile, what does every communist have?
v: Who faced the firing squad with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips?
vi: Who compared the spontaneity of Molotov’s smile to that of a mechanical feline?
vii: Who received a smile from the blonde which he could feel in his hip pocket?
viii: What two adjectives have been applied to the grin of Esox Lucius?
ix: Who, in futile pursuit, grinned like a rodent trap?
x: How often do squat citizens smile?

COMPLETED:
i: Chaplin's song "SMILE" (also sung by NAT KING COLE) (googled by dubdobdee)
ii: The SNARK in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (known by dubdobdee
iii: "BREASTLESS CREATURES under ground/Leaned backward with a lipless grin", from Eliot's 'The Wasteland' (recognised by dubdobdee, google-confirmed marnameow)
iv:
v: This is from the last paragraph of Thurber's "The Secret Life of WALTER MITTY" (known by dubdobdee)
vi:
vii:
viii:
ix:
x: "For Cambridge people RARELY smile/Being urban, squat, and packed with guile", from Rupert Brooke's The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (known by dubdobdee)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ii: the SNARK
iii: "lay back and with a lipless grin" -- they are skeletons in graveyards i think but i forget where the quote is from
v: WALTER MITTY THE UNDEFEATED ("puppy biscuit!"
x: "the locals in cambridge NEVER SMILE, being urban squat and full of guile" (this is the reference, but i may have misquoted)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

vii is def. some Chandler - I read it in a "best lines" page a few days ago after the bishop/plate glass window answer.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

IV Facist frown, but I have no idea at all where my brain dredged that up from.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I. Is this from Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life??