Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Secretary Joslin tried to smooth things out by informing the Press: "This is not censorship. Any newspaper man has a perfect right to ask any employe at the White House any question he wishes. But just try to get any information...
...executed as a magazine novel by Author Fannie Hurst, permits Marion Davies, hitherto an adroit though kittenish comedienne, to attempt an emotional role. Although Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...
Eight young Latin-American males with hair, skin and manners smooth as oil are currently to be seen at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. Not only are they to be seen but they may be addressed, touched, played with, danced with by lonely female guests of the Ambassador. They are gigolos, frankly hired by the hotel to stimulate trade, under the com mand of Mrs. Erma Hubbell, the Ambassador's ''social executive...
...COLUMNIST MURDER-Lawrence Saunders-Farrar & Rinehart ($2).- No one has yet shot smooth-haired, Gossip-Monger Walter Winchell (New York Mirror's "On Broadway") though Zit's Theatrical Newspaper hinted more than six months ago he would be killed within six months (TIME, Nov. 3). Author "Lawrence Saunders" (Burton Davis) calls the victim of his murder-story "Tommy Twitchell," has him shot in a theatre telephone booth during a first-night performance, proceeds with his unraveling tale in a style that owes much to his hero's prototype. As a murder story The Columnist Murder...
...last half mile was a wildly exciting match between the two, with Washington struggling to keep up with Cornell. The Navy stroke, Ray Hunter, could see both boats laboring along behind him. When Cornell began to gain he sent the Navy stroke up to 40 and kept it smooth across the finish, which he crossed to the absurdly disconsolate hooting of a destroyer's fog horn. Cornell was only a length behind, Washington third, the rest of the shells strung out up the river?California, Syracuse, Penn. Columbia, inexplicably ragged and ineffectual, finished seventh, just ahead of Wisconsin...