Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indirectly the President made a little effort to smooth Congress' fur. He announced that he saw no need to draft 18-and 19-year-olds until next year. That announcement took the heat off Congress for dodging that responsibility until after election. It was like a gesture saying "we are all politicians together...
Commented the Congress' General Secretary, sharp-brained, smooth-mannered Sir Walter Citrine: "The war is being made an excuse for the Government's failure to deal with this reform. National unity does not mean that the trade-union movement should be gagged. . . . Labor's loyalty has been badly strained...
...industrial skin creams (e.g., Du Font's "Pro-Tek"), which have been concocted to guard the skin from irritating chemicals. Insurance companies, which often have to fork over for industrial dermatoses, also encourage their use. Sales have doubled in the last year, and girls leave aircraft plants with smooth hands, after degreasing plane parts all day. But most doctors sniff at these industrial cosmetics. They claim that cleanliness will do the same trick...
Californians say her backhand is as smooth as Don Budge's. Ex-opponents declare her serve is as powerful as Helen Wills's. The girl who is trying to live up to this flossy build-up is California's 19-year-old Louise Brough (rhymes with stuff), U.S. Girls' tennis champion...
Smart President Farish, whose approach is as smooth as his head, told first of his Humble Oil beginnings, but barely reached page one of his 35-page statement when the interruptions started. Senator Homer T. Bone, chairman, was quick to challenge any implication that the case against Standard had been one-sided. Said the Senator: "I am fed up on big outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized...