Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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UNDER DISPUTE - Agnes Repplier -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). If this title sounds acrimonious, one glance at its author's name will allay suspicion. Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...Ambassador to Madrid, Constantinople and, in 1898, Ambassador to London, where he lived during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V. His task at London was not simple. The Fashoda incident* was a sore point between France and Britain; but this pearl of ambassadors finally managed to smooth things over, and if not too well, he at least avoided a rupture of peaceful relations. . He was now free to start the greatest work of his life-the formation of the Entente Cordiale, which became a fait accompli in 1904. The signing of this convention was to a large...
...Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve in the sky. But it is a wise precaution to have the safety belt well buckled when flying upside down, for plane and pilot may suddenly part company. To perform a series of loops, when the trick is once learned, is but a question of endurance...
LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that...
...course of true love never did run smooth...