Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this it may deduced that it is not only from those athletically inclined that prayers for a beaming sun, a dry sod or a smooth river surge forth, but equally from those to whom a flash of sunlight against closed lid means a 9 o'clock achieved, whereas a cloudy sky means rest undisturbed until much later hours...
...Stay-at-home Englishmen have never seen a "forest" in the U. S. sense, but use this term to describe any large wooded estate, often with turf underfoot as smooth and impeccable as a lawn tennis court...
...there is anything to denote the stretch of suburbia called Merion as an important adjunct of Philadelphia, it is a 12-acre park, full of rare trees, graveled drives and smooth lawns, surrounding an edifice of buff French limestone where hangs the most notable U. S. collection of modern...
...most conspicuous and characteristic forms of the features. Notice too the great mass of the body to which the delicate sheen of the velvet folds and the pattern of the brocaded sleeves are entirely subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl...
Meanwhile other newspapers gave their cartoonists April foolish license. Bald, smooth-shaven Foreign Minister Stresemann was depicted - for example - as a woolly Bolshevik. Only one great man was held sacrosant, Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was not caricatured because to Germans he is Germany...