Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN?A smooth and scintillating performance of a fluffy theme which proposes that a wife will not know her own husband in a beard and boots...
Coach Stevens expressed his deep regref over the accident to the Pennsylvania boat. We were not as smooth as Pennsylvania", he said yesterday in commenting on the races, "and we did not have the finish they had. This is because we are much further behind in our development than they are, and because they stress and early season crew while we are continually pointing to the New London race...
This "content" and general smooth ness in the University government. D. Kirkpatrick feels, has done much towards giving an impression concerning its organization which is contrary to fact. "The close personal and social relation of the faculty people with their administrative superiors", he says, "undoubtedly constitutes a means of communication and influence which makes possible the conditions which President Lowell describes as 'table serving' by the governors. This close relation, together with the high personal character of the president and his associated administrative staff, causes the unreflecting young instructor to describe the government of Harvard as 'democratic...
...Italian primitives, he takes pleasure, not in the childishly-drawn, insipid features of the holy woman, but in the exquisite ellipse of the head, the halo. The egg of a hen is also an exquisite ellipse. Which is more beautiful- the Mother of God, or a smooth egg? "The Mother of God," answer Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee; for no egg, were it equivocal as Humpty-Dumpty, could interest the eye by such interrelated curves as can a woman's face. How much more do these curves interest when they exist for themselves alone ? ''Let the meticulous observe...
...minutes after rising, picked up speed, passed over the Barnegat Light at 55 knots or approximately 60 miles an hour, with only four of her five engines running. Her action was steady and even, without vibration, giving passengers the sensation of riding in a Pullman car over a fabulously smooth roadbed. Admiral Moffett seated himself in the passenger car and stayed there. "On a trip to Bermuda," said he, "one should take it easy, for everyone goes there for a vacation. However, I am fortunate enough to be on this ship and will make the trip probably in twelve hours...