Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fritchey set out to expose a flourishing racket in cemetery lots. Smooth-tongued promoters had turned pastures into graveyards, sold enough space to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come, grifted $2,000,000 a year in sales, resales, commissions...
...Annie gives way to a "too-smooth" English-speaking announcer who gives News From the American Home Front - a conglomeration of strikes, floods, crimes, as sorted disasters...
Died. The Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 83, San Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week...
Selznick has given Claudette Colbert the richest, biggest role of her career. She rewards him consistently with smooth Hollywood formula acting, and sometimes-especially in collaboration with Mr. Gotten-with flashes of acting that are warmer and more mature. He has brought his newest find, Jennifer (The Song of Bernadette) Jones out of the cloister and made her an All-American girl. She rewards him with a nervous, carefully studied, somewhat overintense performance. Selznick placed a big bet on Shirley Temple's comeback and she pays off enchantingly as a dogged, sensitive, practical little girl with a talent...
Drafted, willingly, into politics by his good friend Winston Churchill shortly after Munich, he made such a name for himself as a top administrator (he planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...