Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Honor Be Damned. Again, Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon...
During the construction of the cavernous city aqueduct, John and Van Horn's niece, Josephine, are engaged. But she is rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...
Lampy's sprightly jester grew tired the other night. His bells lost their occasional merry tinkle. His tongue refused to shape glowing, satirical, malicious phrases. Lampy laid himself down upon his not too smooth bed of humor, imbibed a long draught of sleeping powders, we presume, for nothing else could possibly soothe the torpid vapors of his mind. He pulled the too heavy coverlets of subdued intellect about his ears, and set the clock ticking backwards...
President von Hindenburg sought to end the Cabinet crisis (TIME, Dec. 27) by calling upon Minister of Economics, Herr Doktor Julius Curtius to form a Cabinet. Herr Doktor Curtius, who could pass in most assemblages for a smooth-shaven U. S. businessman, dickered earnestly all week with his political peers but was unable to get sufficient support to keep even a "Little Coalition Cabinet" afloat. Subsequently the President called upon Herr Wilhelm Marx, whose Cabinet has resigned but functions ad interim, to try to form a Government...
Sharing Crimson honors with the veteran sprinter is G. W. Smith '29, whose race in the 600-yard handicap defeated Higgins of Boston College and Fay of Technology. Smith made the distance in 1m. 20 3-5s., running a smooth well-timed race...