Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rider of the range, and treats every crisis with a cool and studied calm. Unfortunately for himself and the lady of the piece, however, his last crisis, when he shoots it out with a wayward brother, does him in. Said lady is thereby left to the endearments of the smooth but sturdy Harvardman, played by Robert Young and his most insipid smirk. The lady is an unknown by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who is blonde if nothing else. Dean Jagger is the capable Western Union boss through all trials and tribulations and does a very workmanlike...
Sabotage groups in America are unbelievably strong, Shallenberger feels. They are tremendously well organized and never do anything until they are sure of its success. "Fifth Columnists are smooth operators and will have little trouble pulling the wool over many American eyes." he stated...
Directed by grey, crop-haired Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, U. S. M. C., Rage in Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...
...Paris newspaper and radio attacks on the "Vichy vermin" suddenly stopped. At a dinner given by German industrialists the two chief proponents of all-out collaboration (i.e., submission), square-shouldered Jacques Doriot and round-shouldered Marcel Déat, had been told to try to smooth Paris-Vichy relations and they appointed a committee to do so. Two members of this committee promptly got jobs with the Vichy Government: Doriot's lieutenant, Paul Marion, as Secretary for Information, and one Benoist Mechin, editorial writer for the anti-Semitic Gringoire, as Assistant General Secretary to Admiral Darlan...
...honor. To interviewers shy Mr. Winant said he hadn't much to say, bit his lip, pawed the ground and jerked out: "I'm glad to be here. There's no place I'd rather be than in England." His harassed sincerity contrasted with the smooth smiles of his predecessor Joe Kennedy, who would rather be almost anywhere than in England...