Word: smoothest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
...Harrison himself is the smoothest ingredient. As a novelist who works in a studio with a romantic north light, he understands women so well that he is willing to teach a couple of smug husbands that if they want to hold their wives, they had better come across with some of the little niceties that ladies appreciate. Mr. Harrison has a lot of fun teaching them their lesson, and so does the audience, if you like attempted seduction in an atmosphere of soft music, low lights, and exquisitely cut dinner jackets. Mr. Harrison's technique would make even a Princeton...
...Howle Turner, another junior who is having his second season in the varsity lightweight boat. While it is hard to draw fine lines between the forms of any men who row in a good lightweight crew, it seems safe to say that Turner shapes up as one of the smoothest oarsmen in the boat. Behind him in the six position is Sam Peirce rounding out the trio in the stern who are not only classmates, but have rowed together for one year already...
...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
...news. It was accepted as good news in a Germany which had not failed to notice that, in his last two or three big speeches, Fiihrer Hitler had dropped his usual tirade against the Bolsheviks. Whether it meant nothing or everything. Comrade Stalin had removed one of the smoothest, most accomplished actors from the world's diplomatic stage...