Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus has the story run all through Mr. Lane's career as Harvard librarian. From the earliest days to the present Reading Period he has successfully met every emergency and carried on the daily work with a smooth sureness. The University can do no less than express its deepest appreciation of a work well done...
...honor on a school-house porch, requested him to depart. She did not "want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their hotel. Not until Governor Byrd apologized in person for Mrs. Reynolds' stupid race-blindness did Samy Pasha shrug his smooth shoulders and say, good-naturedly: "It's all right. We forget...
...anti-Hoover move by Non-Candidate Dawes so upsetting as to precipitate a Coolidge stampede. If Ohio had not "clinched" the thing, said the Hooverites, then Indiana would clinch it, next week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...
...marathon who have no intention of finishing. They start because they can run a little and feel that they might surprise themselves this time; anyway, they can say they started and if they feel tired they can drop out. Before the pack had gone far over the smooth hard road winding toward Boston several had sat down to feel their feet and before the race was half over the pack was cut in half. And still Ray stepped out on his toes, grinning...
...bawdy country wenches, the flabby townspeople, the cheap sports who came to lodge at Aunt Jule's place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger...