Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inside of back cover, July 26). This is my suggestion: that, good though those advertisements are, they are plainly written by some one that has not quite caught TIME style, though that has been his effort. They sound (to me) jerky and adjective-ridden and might gain force if smoothed out as your reading text is smooth. . . . GEORGE BUNBURY...
...studied and composed under famed Edward Alexander MacDowell. But John Erskine is 46; that was long ago. Astonishment was general, therefore, when Professor Erskine appeared, quite professionally late for his first large audience in years, settled delicately into position and let flow from his fingers a performance quite as smooth and sophisticated as the conversation he had let fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure...
...word it seeks to be to cotton what Judge Elbert Henry Gary's American Iron & Steel Institute is to steel-a gyroscopic stabilizer that sucks all manufacturers into the smooth eddy of a single plane...
...Paris a factory burned, 8,000 lovely women were destroyed. Their smooth arms, shaped for the admiration of a great public, dwindled in flame, still clutching to bare bosoms a trail of cloth or towel; their dark or flaxen heads became lumps of strange matter that smoked and stewed and reeked; their carmine lips, half-parted, twisted for a while as if in a vain effort to breathe the fire, until, under the rapture of this last kiss, they closed forever. None escaped. They were wax models, destined for the windows of department stores, milliners, hairdressers...
...aggravating best, when she has a social situation well in hand, and a surprise lurking around the corner. But she does not satisfy here as in another story of the same lot, "The Temperate Zone," which represents her discernment of character displayed before a polite background, all very smooth and able, obeying all the ordinances which she had laid down. It is only when she writes travesties upon a style and a subject not hers, as in the mock Saturday Evening Post story of the professor and the mannequin, that her facility shows its skeleton. And a very good skeleton...