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Word: smoothly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is handsome, in manner friendly, affable. Above broad shoulders, he carries high a well-shaped head with a shock of white hair combed back into a pompadour. Smooth-shaven, his Roman features have been burned dark by Iowa sunshine. A quick engaging smile reveals gleaming white teeth. Not at all the hayseed type of legislator, he wears conservatively cut grey sack suits, feels no embarrassment in cutaway and silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jai Alai | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...BORN? and HERE AM I (Victor)-Jazz that is also music, written by Jerome Kern for Sweet Adeline. Leo Reisman's version has smooth saxophones, smooth violins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...Abraham Lincoln-A Cartoon History by Albert Shaw-Review of Reviews (2 vol. $8). *Dr. Shaw opines that smooth-shaven men of words tended to grow beards when they felt action (the Civil War) approaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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