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Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Pain of Manuel Quezon | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them as a starter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huck's New Boat | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Sidney Hillman, the smoothest compromise artist to appear in years in the City of Compromises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Judge Rosenman Reports | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Just over a thousand new students signed their way into Harvard College yesterday in what officials termed "the smoothest registration in years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1,004 NEW STUDENTS SIGN NAMES IN 'SMOOTHEST REGISTRATION IN YEARS' | 9/21/1940 | See Source »

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