Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Failure of a Coalition. It had been a long week of conferences: the Emperor and the Prince, the Emperor and the War Minister, the Emperor and the Privy Council, the Cabinet and the Prince. Again & again they had examined the smooth, word-worn facets of Japan's problem...
...story has to do with a small-town girl--Miss Dunne--who decides to have her fling in the big city. On the way there, she falls for a smooth slicker, played by Preston Foster, who promptly proceeds to forget her. From there on, the picture manages to give a dismal view of what "life in the penthouses" can sink to. Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda...
...full credit. The ferry route was pioneered last year by the civilian Atlantic Ferry Organization ("Atfero" for short) headed by a Montreal banker, Morris W. Wilson. Atfero hired the pilots, planned the routes, selected the airports. set up weather and radiocommunication stations. Sir Frederick's job was to smooth out rough spots until flying the Atlantic became a matter of routine...
Still the Varsity has advanced along way up the road to a smooth-working aggregation. The same line-up as last week will start for the Crimson...
...have not been mistaken about the smooth working of the whole organization at the front and extending over a gigantic area in the rear. Neither have we been mistaken about the German homeland...