Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...
...Labor Government of Ramsay MacDonald has apparently accomplished, among its other feats, something not wholly political. Whether consciously in order to smooth the way of affairs of state, or unconsciously as a sign of the times, the Carleton Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy...
Beauty's prize is a golden apple, smooth, lustrous, a pretty toy. The prize of 'leadership is a prickly pear...
Thus far, the path of the critic has been smooth. But the question, what uniform basis can be employed, is not easy to answer. For most subjects, however, the absolute, standard can be eliminated at once--it is utterly inapplicable. This leaves only the relative grading--which is equally inapplicable to such courses as mathematics, where an absolute rating is not only possible but imperative. And even in the other courses, a relative grade-curve has ineradicable defects. The Freshmen, for example are required to have three C's and one D to avoid probation; if they chance...
...series last Saturday, the Crimson forwards seldom penetrated even the outer bulwarks of the Bulldog defense, and the three Yale shots which escaped the University goal tender's attention proved enough to set the Blue's undertaker dirge reverberating in the rafters of the Arena. Again on Wednesday, a smooth functioning B. A. A. sextet rained shots on the University cage, and piled up an 8 to 1 victory. Hodder's absence from play, on account of a broken wrist sustained in practice, crippled the team...