Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus New Hampshire's smooth, sarcastic Republican Senator Styles Bridges resumed his attack one day last week on Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia and special envoy in the South Pacific (TIME, Jan. 18). Styles Bridges had sighted political pay dirt; he had a little score to settle with the Administration for digging up potent, ex-Republican Governor Francis P. Murphy to run against him in last November's election...
...Made one appointment which was almost unanimously decried: tall, smooth Edward J. Flynn, successful Boss of The Bronx and unsuccessful chairman of the National Democratic Committee, to be the President's personal Ambassador and Minister to Australia. To critics who failed to find any diplomatic qualifications in the background of hard-bitten Politician Flynn, this looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration...
Milena's pictures revealed a smooth, sculptural quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste...
...second hand on a watch. The crew put on life vests and then fleece-lined flying suits over them, and I watched, knowing I would be cold without one. We went above the clouds, but they were scattered, and we could see the sea, grey and steely blue and smooth below...
Nemo started making corsets and brassieres 48 years ago, had smooth sailing except for batting down its reputation as a "heavy women's house" and finding girdle names that punsters could not twist into something nasty. It got into war work ten months ago when the elastic shortage mildly upset peacetime business and the Medical Corps was hunting for someone to make quantities of tourniquets, straps, tapes, etc. Then it picked up orders for 60,000 WAAC girdles (flesh-tan, 280 sq. in. of elastic, four 2½-in. garters), some 50,000 Army flare parachutes to boot...