Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft...
Still very much alive, with coast-to-coast plans for teams in seven cities, was the ambitious young All-America Football Conference. But All-America's road looked none too smooth. Moving last week to smother any postwar competition, the long-established National Football League gave its Brooklyn Tigers (dispossessed of their Ebbets Field home) permission to switch to Yankee Stadium in 1946. This left All-America with only one hope in metropolitan New York: Brooklyn's Ebbets Field...
...Although at the beginning of the year Britain's sugar stocks were higher than prewar, and U.S. stocks were the lowest on record-too low for smooth distribution-630,000 tons of this year's Cuban sugar crop have been allotted to Britain...
Rooling along at a smooth pace after trouncing a flabby Lampoon nine by a rollicking score of 23 to 2, a stellar squad from 14 Plympton, Street is leveling its maces to concede to topple the Radcliffe News...
...failed. Year after year TVA shunned politics, awarded jobs on a merit basis. Shaking with rage, Kenneth McKellar time & again rose in the Senate to denounce quiet, smooth-faced TVA Chairman David Eli Lilienthal, 45. Time & again, in the hope of clubbing TVA into submission, he sought to bring its day-by-day finances under the control of Congress. Frustrated, he bided his time and nursed his grudge. This spring many a Washington politico believed that the 76-year-old spoilsman had TVA squarely in his sights at last. His enemy, David Lilienthal, faced reappointment for a nine-year term...