Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monty Woolley-Alexander Woolcott with a beard-fits his part as perfectly as he does the wheelchair in which he spends most of the film. Better Davis, while she might seem somewhat wasted as the ingenue lead, is pert and smooth as his long-suffering secretary. Reginald Gardner plays Noel Coward better than Coward himself could...
Over a weekend they poured into the nation's 6,500 draft boards-smooth-faced young men, greying middling-agers. Many a father, scarred by World War I, signed up alongside his son. Waiting their turn in line were: a Supreme Court associate justice (William O. Douglas), an ex-hero (Charles Augustus Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year...
...Free Conscience, Void of Offence some smooth-motored Yale '12 classmates and their wives, softly convivial at a well-kempt bar, drink toasts to Chamberlain's success at Munich...
...Foot in Heaven" is boosted above the mediocrity of its essential dullness by a pair of fine and sensitive performances by Frederick March and Martha Scott, and by a smooth directorial touch that irons out many of the rough spots, though too many are still left. Some of its scenes are superbly handled: the minister's effort to show his son the evil of motion pictures by accompanying him to a Wild West Nickelodeon, for example, is a brilliantly carried out piece of work. And there are a number of others equally well done...
...looked as if Chile's Presidential election this week would be close. Arrogant, handsome General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, once his nation's "strong man," was backed by the rightist Conservative and Liberal Parties, the small but noisy pro-Nazi Popular Socialist Vanguard. Smooth, greying Juan Antonio Rios, veteran Radical Party politico, was backed by the middle-to-left Popular Front, fast recovering from its sickness following the death of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last November...