Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always bounces out of the wings, a square, bullet-headed man, smooth shaven except for a tiny marceled patch where his fontanel was 30 years ago. He brandishes his trumpet. He gives a roguish grin. His eyes roll around in his head like white, three-penny marbles...
Emil Lederer, a sturdy Bohemian who became a U. S. citizen and has been in the shipping business 40 years, had reason to be proud last week. For the North Atlantic Passenger Conference, to which all North Atlantic lines belong, decided that Mr. Lederer is the man to smooth shipping's troubled waters, made him their "tsar." With power to go through members' books to see that tariffs are being adhered to, he will rule the Conference with the same undisputed power that its captains have at sea. While the choice must be ratified at the Conference...
...race was over the Henley distance on comparatively choppy water, caused by a strong southerly breeze. Dunster was allotted the lane nearest the Boston shore, while Lowell followed a less sheltered course in midstream, and the advantage of smooth water was probably a contributing factor in Dunster's victory...
...quartet's genial second tenor who comes from Ypsilanti, Mich., is good enough to solo some times with Manhattan's Philharmonic; Wilfred Glenn, square-set, sandy-haired bass who grew up on a Mexican ranch. Pianist Frank Black joined the Revelers in 1925, started making the smooth arrange ments which make Revelers sound better than other male quartets. The two new Revelers still look like good-natured college boys: Baritone Phil Dewey, who not long ago was earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James...
...crimes in the approved Raffles' manner. Then the God of the cinema ushered in the hotel theme with the monumental productions, "Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...