Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story was one which appealed to able Director William Wyler (Wuthering Heights, The Memphis Belle), who confesses that...
...FITZGERALD, ex-Notre Dame gridder who at 170 pounds is the lightest regular on the, Eli squad, scored three touchdowns against the Crimson last year. He is a deceptively smooth runner whose passing ability is only excelled by that of Furse...
...advertisements held news, too. Autumn was the time for auctions. The Pulaski County (Indiana) Democrat heralded John Manning's public sales, three miles west of Medaryville. Manning offered two horses (smooth mouth), a white-face cow (6 years old, bred in August), 25 head of hogs, assorted farm implements, an iron butchering kettle and two electric fence chargers. The Palace Theater's advertisement in the Hills (Minn.) Crescent ballyhooed a new picture-Johnny Mack Brown (half forgotten by city audiences) in a Western titled Ghost Guns...
Enameled Hopes. Lustron, which made enameled steel fronts for gas stations before the war, had never made a house. Yet its husky, smooth-talking president, Carl Strandlund, 47, a vice president of Vitreous, had convinced NHA that he could mass-produce thousands of prefabricated houses, made chiefly of enameled steel sheets. All Lustron needed for the job, said Strandlund, was a little help, such as the Dodge plant and a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. of from $32 to $52 million. Lustron was willing to invest as much as $36,000 of its own money...
Everyone agrees that the Scarlet were the smartest, best-coached outfit to visit the Stadium since 1942, and from a purely esthetic point of view, their alert backing-up and silk-smooth offensive machinations were delightful to behold. And throughout the nation this year, past season records, the size of undergraduate bodies, and batteries of press agents don't mean too much, for only eleven men are allowed to play at one time...