Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the terms reached by the editors, the exchange of sports pictures and stories of the teams of other colleges was systematized on an experimental basis. A second such Ivy League newspaper conference to smooth out the workings of the system will be held at Brown on April...
Enlarging upon this warning, the author continues, "Harvard men are generally the most dangerous of college chums. Princeton men are smooth enough, and Yaleys handsome enough. But Harvard men, like Radcliffe women, have a deeper culture. Harvard education is of the academic sort; it has no practical applications, soaked in the experiences of a long distant past, and experience in the most effete of circles--for they are generally well-to-do families--they emerge very sophisticated, very smooth and very formidable...
...turned to other matters. The early facts of the case in police annals are that a coat and hat were found on the bridge early of a Sunday morning. But the body was not found after the river was dragged and a driver had searched every foot of the smooth river floor for 800 feet below the bridge. Finally the police issued a statement declaring the body could not be in the river...
George Bernard Shaw spiked a London rumor that his fingers were absolutely smooth, without whorls. He said: "I have fingerprints just the same as everybody else-or rather nearly the same...
...sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine. That was the last scene, Bob. You're all through now." White-haired Actor McWade scuffed off the set, sat down in a canvas...