Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hustled into marriage because her Argentine father (Adolphe Menjou) insists that she wed before her younger sisters. Fred Astaire, a momentarily unemployed Yankee hoofer, gets mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...
...game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the dainty duiker and the lordly kudu*-all the smooth-haunched animals on whose bellies the tsetse feeds-will be exterminated by professional hunters under supervision of the government...
...told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened to throw Okin out of the room. An aged shareholder yelped that he had paid $4,000 for stock now worth only $12.50. He shook his fist right under President Murphy's twitching nose, demanded...
Only a second and a half ahead of BU and ten seconds behind the Fifties, Tech managed to hold a lead picked up at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge over the Terriers and crossed the line in fourth place. The smooth-water Redskins, badly troubled by big waves whipped up by a three quarter tail wind brought up the rear...
Even before the bridge was reached there was little doubt as to the outcome. After an early spurt the Fifties gave way to a smooth-stroking Freshman boat which finished five seconds behind the Varsity. A B.U. shell which challenged the Tech men all the way provided the thrills for the scanty crowd that spotted the banks and bridges...