Search Details

Word: smoothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...when we were so obviously un-neutral? The Lease-Lend Bill was another move to keep the country out of war, supported for that reason by large sections of the people and Congress. The road to war has changed very little, except that it is better paved and has smoother-looking billboards along the way. With Me Too Willkie, the last few miles would have been the same. Asked recently about his anti-intervention statements last fall, the Hoosier man-of-the-people winked and said, "just campaign oratory." He may not be as skillful a driver as Roosevelt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franker Than Franklin | 5/6/1941 | See Source »

...with ice cream in any House but Adams, a bedtime story over the Crimson Network by A Member of the History Department. Among these harmless and ever-so-precious diversion might also be numbered leafing through the latest issue of Esquire, with its luxurious layout, its smooth ads and smoother women-especially since the Petty girl has returned. But simultaneously with the return of this lovely creature came a decree by the Boston police banning it from newsstands in Cambridge and the Hub, amid, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ME AND MY GAL | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...course, after three years no one expects a crowd of amateurs. But you will be frankly surprised at the smoothness of the production, smoother than most glamour-musicals. The songs are done to a turn. There are no individual stars, but the revue is such a cohesive unit that your attention is kept right to the tick of the moment and you never start praying that the star will take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

Harvard can best demonstrate its desire to see smoother town and gown relations by volunteering to assist the Cambridge authorities on October 16. Those who wish to sign up (and don't forget--it excuses you from classes) should speak to a Student Council representative or write directly to the Student Council at Phillips Brooks House immediately. The deadline is tomorrow noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

Listen to the Boston Pops record and see if you don't find its effect to be over-pretentious and Virginia Reelish in the extreme. While I don't think the Scott record is any prize-winner, at least it gains some vestige of swing by being smoother and looser in style. The same thing holds for "Pavanne" but in a lesser degree, since it was originally designed for a concert jazz orchestra (whatever that...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

Previous | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | Next