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Word: smoothest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuisance to small boys playing hockey on country ponds are those solemn, grown-up "fancy" skaters who select the smoothest patch of ice and amuse themselves by executing interminable inside edges, spread eagles, figure eights. Fancy skaters, who prefer to call themselves figure skaters, last week held their championship tournament in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fancy Skaters | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Powell sits and sits and-sits, oozes urbanity, overboiled coffee and Japanese prints, and almost succeeds in making the picture a bore. That it attains mediocrity instead of flat failure is due to the rest of the cast, notably William Boyd (not the William Boyd) who makes perhaps the smoothest gangster seen in these parts since the Wall Street Explosion. Paul Lukas as the flat foot causes one to wonder what, if anything, Law and Order is coming...

Author: By J. J. R. jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/20/1930 | See Source »

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