Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third party does not seem imminent, there are no planks for a platform and no one to build it. The Progressives would do better, many believe, to mount the old platforms, deliver their new ideas if they wish to the people already there assembled, and facilitate not prevent the smooth working of Congress...
...Graesler felt horribly about it-but Frau Sommer was so unostentatiously kind to him that he married her in the end. Precise, ironic, beautifully self-contained, this admirable little novel by the author of the much-discussed Casanova's Homecoming progresses to its odd conclusion with smooth felicity...
...would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same. The deliberate consciousness of Americans so fair and smooth-spoken, and the under consciousness so devilish...
...couturier, whose clientele is chiefly American and English, has been forced to place signs in his fitting rooms that hereafter all customers must wear underwear. His dress measurers and saleswomen complained that many society women are dispensing with all undergarments following the latest style edict, which insists on supple, smooth lines...
Three factors conspired to beat the English horse. A) His voyage and race under totally unfamiliar conditions. B) The smooth plates and the felt spats he wore which deadened his action in the muddy going...