Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President of the new Postal is a tall, smooth ex-accountant named Edwin F. Chinlund, who twice in his career has been a partner in Arthur Andersen & Co. (auditors), in between was vice president and comptroller of I. T. & T. Chinlund's immediate job will be to compete more aggressively with big, hungry Western Union. But the long and more complicated end of his assignment is negotiating with Western Union, investors, labor and Washington for a merger of the two sickish systems into one with a better chance of making money...
...Johnnie Bunker in the high jump. Partlow cleared six feet in the K. of C. meet, but Hunker, a six footer of yore who should have the bamboo up to six feet, two inches by now, has yet to hit his stride. Donahne has been running well and in smooth form; he will have real competition is Shields of Yale and may be pushed to as extraordinary time...
Contrary to all the learned treatises that classicists may write on the subject, good jazz today is fundamentally a legato (smooth) style, rather than a staccato (jerky) style. How many times have you seen "Jazz is the result of playing melodies in short, heavily accented and staccato phrases." . . . That's like defining an automobile as a stagecoach. The definition and the symphony men's idea of jazz are 'way behind the times...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...
...fetishism, surely, but today it is firmly founded on common sense. It is now making the advances to the colleges, carefully tending its preserves. Mr. Stocking doesn't have any Senatorial togas in his suitcase for distribution to likely men, but he represents the leadership of an enlightened and smooth-working bureaucracy. His work keeps alive the spirit of reform that burst forth so enthusiastically after the Civil War, a spirit that should never be allowed...