Word: smooth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Master, always smooth and smart in a tough spot, was ready for them. News, hey? He'd give them news. Apparently he had rummaged through his desk for every scrap that came to hand. Smiling, urbane, completely at ease in the hot morning, he greeted the reporters much as a managing editor handing out the day's assignment budget. Frontpage, feature stories, straight news, inspirational chats, financial items...
...gave an inch. The plates were cleared away, the men lit cigars. For nearly four hours they argued. Big Jim and his cohorts held their ground. So did Franklin Roosevelt's men: short, swart Governor Lehman; smooth, tough National Chairman Ed Flynn, a bumbling upstate leader named Terence J. McManus...
...Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning: Mr. Roosevelt needs...
...spot for any play, but the Cambridge Summer Theatre's selection of "Out of the Frying Pan" proved to be a fortunate choice. Francis Swann's comedy about a gang of screwball actors in one of the funniest things to hit Boston this summer, and some clever acting and smooth direction add immeasurably to the general merriment...
...villain of the Cummins' news shorts is conservatism. But, like a good propagandist, Cummins sometimes varies his fare with shorts like the one on the homecoming of Hitler-loving Unity Freeman-Mitford (TiME, Jan. 15, 1940). The short was narrated in smooth doggerel,† accompanying shots of British troops keeping the press at bay with fixed bayonets...