Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office is concerned. Author-Director George Seaton has laced his sure-fire sentimentality with equally sure-fire wit and some cynical knowledge about how men of business and law might talk, look and act under these extravagant circumstances. The movie handles all its whimsy deftly and is consistently a smooth, agile...
...paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While he dreamed, the little girl next door moved away. When she returned grownup (June Allyson), the boy was no doctor; he was shaping out a too-smooth career as an aviation executive, and was engaged to the boss's daughter...
Different & Diffident. The language of The Industrial Charter was mostly the work of 42-year-old David McAdam Eccles, a smooth-mannered M.P. for Chippenham, an up-comer among "progressive" Conservatives. Like Grossman, Eccles is Oxford-bred. By this week some Laborites were calling him "Colonel Blimp's Dick Crossman." The Tory and Laborite pamphlets were more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences. They agreed, in the main, that Britain's economy should be run according to Government plan; both cried the need of one powerful Minister...
Last week the World Bank, originally chartered in 1944, finally transacted its first piece of business. With a minimum of formality and the signing of a mere twelve documents, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development took a positive step toward "bringing about a smooth transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy." This first step was a loan of $250,000,000 to France, for 30 years, at 3¼% interest, plus 1% commission (on the outstanding part) which the Bank collects to build up a special reserve. The negotiations, which took only six weeks, were conducted...
Going on ten years old. the Hooper agency employs 500 people (including twelve experts in New York whose only function, says Hooper, is to smooth the ruffled hair of hucksters). Its income last year was $983,000. For 1947, things are looking...