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...Freeman used to render his soles in the "hesitation" style, i.e., he would pause every three or four bars to think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her month is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs...
...drive a wedge between the U.S. and Britain by making a honeyed special appeal for smoother Anglo-Russian relations...
Declaring that "the situation is improving all the time," William C. Bradford, newly-appointed secretary of the Freshman Union, yesterday predicted less delay and smoother service in the Union dining hall in the near future...
Tito's face has changed too: his features, once deeply gullied, have become smoother with well being. His permanent frown has become heavier; the permanent smile on his wide lips has become more cunning, and is now flanked by deeper furrows of cynicism. Even in his guerrilla days, Tito insisted on daily shaves and neat dress. Now, as Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes...