Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head man and whole show at Flanders Hall is smooth-faced, 25-year-old Sigfrid Hauck. When the firm was incorporated in the fall of 1939, a WPA job had folded under him. He now lives in a comfortable new house. Of 16 Flanders booklets, mainly bitterly Anglophobic, he has unloaded some 22,000 copies at prices ranging from 35? to $2 retail. He expects soon to publish titles "by some very prominent and patriotic Americans," says "I am a great admirer of Wheeler, Lindbergh and men of that caliber...
...that got the loudest cheers was James Austin's five-year-old smooth-haired fox terrier, Champion Nornay Saddler, brought out of retirement to try for the Morris & Essex best-in-show. Winner of 55 best-in-shows, a world's record, Saddler had never put his best paw forward at Mrs. Dodge's party. Last week, making a champion's comeback, he outshone the five other group winners in the final judging, added the coveted Morris & Essex to his collection of best-in-shows. "I must rate him all-time tops," purred Judge Enno Meyer...
Krupa's band comes here after recent engagements at the Meadowbrook Club, Glen Island Casino, and the Hotel Pennsylvania. "The band will tend towards the smooth and sweet," commented McGann. Mrs. Roger Irving Lee of Brookline is Head Patroness, and will be assisted by Mrs. James Bryant Conant, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Langdon P. Narvin, and Mrs. Ralph Hornblower...
...wrote a play in French, Les Pariahs, which ran 100 nights at the Theatre Moliere in Paris. Then he turned to diplomacy and began his smooth ascent in the Foreign Office.* In 1920 he became private secretary to mammoth, crusty Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon. In 1928 he became Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. In 1930 he became Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that was when his power began. Though Foreign Secretaries came & went, Sir Robert's influence remained so strong that it was said he was one of the three...
...Woman's Face. They could turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...