Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until the program was temporarily taken off last month, 3,510,000 people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord is smooth-faced, suave, lively. As Seth Parker, he puts on a white wig and false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural witticisms. Leading members of his cast of ten singer-actors are "Ma" Parker, Capt. Bang...
When Francis Scott Key (This Side of Paradise) Fitzgerald went there (Class of 1917), Princeton University was called a "country club." This was partly because Princeton is a pleasant countryside community, partly because its undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig...
...undergrad at Princeton these days is smooth he is certain to get by socially. If he is not smooth he misses out on a lot of things. . . . Outstanding ability at auction is likely to get a student farther than physical prowess which takes him through a rival line and wins touchdowns...
...Tenor McCormack and many another musical notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were not always smooth but there was none of the nasal bleating common to most German tenors. Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness. The rest of the evening was Lehar, Lehar cheered by an audience which refused to go home until...
...duty to leave them at peace, to make smooth their path, to let them work things...