Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray's business is up 50% to 100% (most in defense cities), has actually risen 300%...in Los Angeles. There 600 pupils pay $11,000 each month to learn the rumba, smooth swing, jitterbugging or "New Yorker" (West Coast name for the Lindy...
Five of the Houses announced last night that they would open their dining-room doors for lunch at 12:00 o'clock on Saturdays when there are football games "to smooth out crowded conditions...
...carpeted staircase of the Seaman's Club at Archangel was pounded smooth by feet from many lands. Cheerful, blue-bloused, smoking, joking, swearing lads greeted each other in universal monosyllables, sang the songs of home, danced with Russian girls. War, even in Russia, had its interludes...
...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...York's smooth-striding Yankees: the American League pennant, for the sixth time in seven years; after leading the league since the first week...