Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bigelow's problem will be to select as soon as possible from the wealth of experienced material on hand the strongest possible team to carry the colors of the University in the strenuous engagements that follow. With tentative dates listed with several powerful Canadian teams during Christmas week, a smooth, strong sextet must be chosen almost at once...
...recent article Mr. Gilbert Seldes points to the mechanical aspect of life in the United States--symbolized by the little electrically-made cubes of ice--as a possibility which might develop American taste away from the baroque. The smooth simplicity of things mechanical, embodying at the same time, comfort and even luxury, appear to him to be able to keep the American standard near a same norm...
...signal drill yesterday the teams worked on this department of the game. Facing each other, Teams A and B each made liberal use of the aerial thrusts. In view of Yale's reputed powerful barrage of passes, the coaches will probably pay considerable attention to perfecting a smooth and efficient aerial defense...
...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...
...another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack's Scottish mansion, the Duke and Heiress are left to their own dangerous company, while the less keen, more pleasant couple enter holy matrimony. The cast is the last word in sophisticated urbanity...