Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles in the caverns of his reversible for a pipe. Then the shiny, long, important train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard...
Back in 1918 Frank Bacon played the lovable, lying, drunken Bill Jones, but we doubt if he were any more expert in his portrayal than Mr. Stone. At any rate, in an age of smooth, streamlined productions it is a pleasure to be presented with a comedy the charm of which is as much due to its atmosphere of antiquity as to its content...
...Whitman, however, belongs with the best of the books about his poetry. The first clear exposition of his political beliefs, it establishes his relevancy to the present so convincingly that few readers are likely to question it. Brief and compact, with subtle critical formulations worked unobtrusively into its smooth and scholarly prose, it places Whitman's poems in relation to the life of his time-not only to radicalism, the Abolitionists, the Utopian socialists, the Jacksonian Democrats, the youthful robber barons, the trade unions, but to the educators and scientists whose work Whitman studied and the German philosophers whose...
Against these predatory invaders, Harvard's defense must be perfected. Even as Coach Harlow labors on his defense against the Saturday invasions of gridiron teams, so the University must try to out-manoeuvre its opponents, to re-enforce the vulnerable spots, in order that its own progress may be smooth. How this menacing wooden horse is to be out-witted is today the major problem of this institution because the horse represents a composite of all its controversies--both academic and political. It is the purpose of the following editorials to analyze this situation by reviewing its component parts...
...charged for transportation from bar to tables. The Rice was also headquarters of the Executive Council. In & out the doors of the Council's rooms passed tiny, wax-haired Matthew Woll of the Engravers; smart, tough Dan Tobin of the Teamsters; Dan Tracy of the Electrical Workers; smart, smooth John Coefield of the Plumbers. Still a councilman by virtue of his long service, snow-haired Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison ambled about in lonely dignity...