Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead of the House was a Warm Springs visitor. Points for the press: Everything about the reorganization of House committees was sweet and smooth; there would be no such thing as "Must" legislation next session...
...deals with the aid of champagne suppers and chorus girls was standard business technique of the roaring 1920s. Trying that technique on representatives of the biggest business in the land-the U. S. Government-was last week among the allegations brought against William P. Buckner Jr., 31, a smooth, sporty lawyer who lived in The Bronx but could boast kinship with Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life Insurance Co. (uncle...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
According to Butterfield the two Princeton professors, feeling secretly inferior, took refuge subconsciously in aphasia to remove their abulia. They tried to rid themselves of their inferior feeling and increase their inferior felling and increase their own ego by calling Princeton men, "Style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college, and socialite...
...voted were given 50 qualifying adjectives from which they were asked to choose five words characteristic of men ion each college. The poll concluded that Yale men are college-loyal, athletic, socialite, hard-drinking, and typical college students. Princeton's sons were described as being style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college and socialite. Dartmouth produces outdoor, college-loyal, hard-drinking athletic, and rah-rah men. All voters thought their own college broad-minded...