Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while swell-shirted Herbert Claiborne Pell, the Newport bolshevik, moved from the hot spot at Lisbon to one at Budapest, as Minister to Hungary. Edwin Carleton Wilson, at Uruguay and William Dawson, at Panama, changed jobs, both at Ambassadorial rank, and spare, smooth Alexander Comstock Kirk was promoted from Rome Embassy counselor to Minister to Egypt...
...years new Yorkers have seen the best college basketball in the country. They have seen the champions of the Big Six, Big Seven, Big Ten, the best of the South, West, Southwest. They have seen smooth-clicking Kansas (coached by Phog Allen, the Knute Rockne of basketball) and towering Oregon, a team of super-six footers, whose 6 ft. 7 in. centre can reach eleven feet into the air. But the team 16,000 fans turned out to see last week just on the most exciting show in the Garden's history...
...time being he had spent his last diplomatic dollar courting sister republics to the south. He sat back to study the results of his wooing, figure whether he had scored over his rival, the Axis. One conclusion could be drawn: the course of bought love does not always run smooth...
...VICTOR M720) while erring on the side of over-brilliance, is a thoroughly satisfactory job. Eugene Ormandy has an obvious love for the work, which on the whole triumphs over the occasional patchiness of his performance. Feurmann's cello playing is, as always, superlative, and blends admirably with the smooth viola-solo of Samuel Lifschey. The cello solo is one reason why Don Quixote appeals to me more than Ein Heldenleben, in which work the lengthy passages of ultra-sweet, upper-register fiddling get on my nerves so much as to lessen my enjoyment of the work...
...almost a month now, the Feslermen have been enjoying a prolonged vacation from game play, although informal practice has been held every day in the indoor Athletic Building. The contest with Tufts tomorrow at Medford will serve partially to help smooth over the rough spots which are expected to result from such a long layoff...