Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Union in Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming "with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt spoke a smooth public piece in the style to which all Americans are now accustomed. When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon itching to get onto a cable. Particularly itchy...
...Irish sea captain, George Peter Alexander Healy opened a studio in Boston when he was 18. When he approached a beauteous socialite and blurted a red-faced request that she sit for him, she consented, and thereafter Healy had smooth if not spectacular sailing during his long career. A facile workman, he did probably 1,000 portraits. He satisfied his customers with good likenesses-sometimes vigorous, sometimes podgy, never subtle. He enjoyed his work, left a batch of gossipy memoranda. Of Lincoln he wrote: "During one of the sittings, as he was glancing at his letters, he burst into...
...were on the line. The strong head wind and with it the sea had dropped as he cried "Ready, Row!" The boats were off like a flash. Harvard started easily, soon dropped to a lower stroke than the Tigers, but stayed with them. "Spike" Chace settled down to a smooth, easy 32; Princeton was two strokes higher behind Fred Warner...
...skates. Used eight rubber cushions on both pairs of skates. . . ." Skaters Skelly & Shefuga drank only milk and water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast as 20 m.p.h. Their highest speed: 40 m.p.h. down Torrey Pine Hill, near San Diego...
These Brunswick recording artists feature smooth sax and clarinet encores, accented by a pagan tomtom...