Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aurora Borealis, a smooth St. Bernard, as faith-inspiring as an advertisement for a life insurance company. While the ribbon was being awarded him, he stared with massive tolerance at the judges as if he had thought of a scornful comment which, out of deference to their feelings, he would keep to himself. Bred by the Hercuveen Kennels...
...McCarthy, stocky, smooth faced, of medium height, heavy, spectacled and prematurely grey, sat looking at the patient, asked a few questions, declared he suffered from "prostatic trouble" curable by "electric treatment" for $100, $20 down. He operates the "House of Health," where in a demurely yet impressively equipped waiting room a buxom, black-eyed, black-haired demoiselle welcomes the "lobs." But they work for H. L. Giles and August E. Kroening, who syndicate their institutions with branches in Manhattan, Jersey City, Newark, N. J., Kansas City, Montreal and Detroit. They have been harried about the U.S. and Canada...
Near Port Jervis, N. Y., lives one Marcus Porter, a farmer. Farmer Porter is renowned throughout Orange County for his calf. It is a fat calf, smooth and perfectly formed, but most of all remarkable for the fact that it is absolutely hairless. Last week Farmer Porter was offered $700 for his calf, which is the only one of its kind that has ever been seen in the district. He refused...
...rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great a necessity of making the surface absolutely smooth because the wide area of the Valley made a clearing of the entire rock foundation impossible. On the other hand, at Gizeh, there was every necessity for making the plaster absolutely smooth with the rock and completely camouflaged. The failure on the part of the architects to do this seemed sufficient...
...Watkins, rangy captain and center of the Purple, whose speed and flashy stick work was the outstanding feature of the play, the invaders held the winners on even terms until they tired in the middle of the second session. The Williamstown sextet displayed a smooth running attack which was effective even against the fierce body checking of the Crimson defense...