Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelmstrasse, into the German Chancellery went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
Relations. Sly General von Schleicher had reasons for selecting Baron von Gayl and Lieut. Colonel von Papen. The smooth von Papen married the niece of a French Marquis. He speaks almost perfect French. He has many French friends and much money invested in French concerns. Baron von Gayl is descended from an Andreas Gail of Cologne, ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail...
Through this frolicking crowd of plain people in shirt sleeves moved a tall lanky figure extending a friendly welcome to all. His smooth white hand shook many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving command was conclusive proof that Ezekiel was smooth-shaven at the time he was doing his best prophesying. Since Ezekiel kept his standing as the Lord's prophet for many years afterward, he must have obeyed the Lord's command. The case of the beard defenders was that, while the shaving order implied the existence...
What was there to fear? Bat'a, who had already flown more than 20,000 miles, was more than willing to take what seemed to him the smallest of chances. The plane's engine roared. It thundered across the perfectly smooth Bat'a Airfield, be gan to climb, disappeared into the mist...