Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect--melodrama, provincial comedy, middle Western still life, or a subtle dramatic tangle. The combination of all four...
...tells a cheerless story of a thirty-dollar-a-week couple. The husband wanted to be an Elk and the wife a movie actress-estimable ambitions in themselves possibly, but scarcely the be-all and the end-all of this life. There appears on their tiny horizon a smooth and sinister young man who will get the husband into the Elks and the wife into the movies. By the third act he has all the former's money and the latter's honor. The hapless two awake to hurl recriminations back and forth and to make...
...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
Original subscriber Westman's point seems to be well taken. It is not TIME'S aim to confuse its readers, but to smooth the way for them. Hereafter (wherever practiced) words difficult will be edited into the lowest terms...
Ferocity ? warm wind climbing up the front of cold ? pumelled the splitting smooth-skinned bulk. The ship's nose?in itself a mountain was torn completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped...