Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President called the conference leaders to the White House. He pointed out that for the sake of amicable relations with Japan, the State Department would need some time in which to abrogate the "Gentleman's Agreement" (under which Japanese immigration has been regulated) and to smooth matters over diplomatically with Japan. He induced them to insert in the conference report of the bill, a provision that the exclusion feature should not become operative until March...
...Dean Stone was rubicund, smooth-shaven, cheerful-a jovial good fellow in any other atmosphere, I thought. And keen! Startling questions popped out of his mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn...
...become the patron of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman, Car Porters 'George'." The inference is inevitable to a superstitious mind that the ghost of the great Father has risen in Danish wrath to object to the promiscuous use of his forename. A religious touch--which may smooth over the unmistakable insult to the present holders of the title--is added to the movement by the fact that Senator Moses has become one of its high priests...
...first match of the University game Captain Frank Anderson, former senior indoor champion and number three in the Metropolitan ranking had fairly smooth going in defeating Ingraham. Pfaffmann and Briggs met a similar fate at the hands of Lang, New York state intercollegiate holder, and Marshall. The fourth and fifth Harvard players, Cummings and Harrington, were able to make quick work of their opponents. In his match Dixon started, out with a 6-1 victory, but lost the second set. For a few games in the third it looked as if he might even the score, but a smashing comeback...
...England two and a half centuries ago during the reign of Charles the Second, a period when other unwholesome things crept into the world. The word 'happiness' does not occur a single time in the authorized version of the Bible. 'Happy' does occur, but not in the sense of smooth, glowing pleasure. A modern invention and a poor one is my opinion of the doctrine of happiness, a doctrine which Carlyle denounced as 'a paltry speculation...