Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempered her imagination and intelligence to the shorn middlebrow. Under Biblical sanction, there are a lot of women with alerted breasts and, for the ladies' trade, some ten scenes in which a man is displayed "naked except for his loincloth." The characterization, generally perceptive, but never "difficult," is smooth and simplified enough to suggest A-budget movie casting. But Author Schmitt has managed to give her hero's miscellaneous career overall unity by using it to illustrate her chief idea: that so long as conscience survives, man learns not only from the good he tries...
...Many Fingers. But the road to office was not all smooth for Candidate Steel. To the New York World-Telegram, he was " 'an all-out defender of Stalin's politics' with a special bent for Soviet worship. . . ." The New Leader, an anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler...
Last month the Duhalde Government, seeking to appease rightist sentiment, cracked down on a strike of Communist-led nitrate workers. Duhalde brought in tough, smooth Vice Admiral Vicente Merino Bielich, boss of the Navy, to serve as Minister of Interior and strong man. Trade unionists, dismayed at such developments, staged a general strike, demonstrated in the streets of Santiago, demanded a government of the left. But labor's solidarity now collapsed. Socialists, offered four portfolios, joined the new Government, denounced the Communists for brewing another general strike. That left the Popular Front in ruins, the Cabinet uneasily balanced with...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
...Make Ready" appears to have a young, spirited cast and management as yet unjaded by the box-office. With the show's basic ingredients--good music, dancing, and production--the troupe, sparked by Mr. Bolger's whimsical mimicry and Jane Deerings delicate dancing, can be counted on to smooth out something that at present can be entirely enjoyable only after a few drinks...