Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster Vincent van Gogh, and so is the tone of his story. Comfortably pneumatic as a Rubens model (678 pages), it provides an intricate semiprivate history of its period (1577-1640), a smooth survey course in Renaissance art, and a career which refreshingly breaks most of the rules set down about The Great Artist...
They had. The legend among oldtime U.S. pilots that Chinese make poor flyers took another body blow. Luke Field's Oriental fledglings had blown a few tires, scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they made instructors' eyes pop at the way they could shoot. Diving at a tiny towed target and slamming away with fixed aerial guns at a little patch of white on the ground, the top Chinese gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind...
Congressmen winced, weaseled, worried. This kind of letter could not be answered with the usual smooth line: "All of the points you raise have been noted." One Congressman was almost tearful...
...walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this place. . . . It's home to me. We too old now to do steady work...
Johnny Page, pivot see, will be sorely missed. He is "almost certain" he won't be around. Dave Goldwaite, only blocking back left from Harlow's smooth-working 1941 machine, although he is light, would have probably been the ranking man in this department. But he will be in Medical School before the football season rolls around...