Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
Political machines are fueled by jobs, oiled by the hope of jobs to come. After four years of jobs to burn, the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
Pulled by a snorting Deere tractor, the machine moved back & forth at 3 m.p.h. along the 300-yd. rows of plants. Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...
...Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded...
Pete was a pleasant-appearing, healthy, realistic Philadelphia boy who grew up in a neighborhood where he never had a chance. He spent a little time in a reform school, was mixed up in a few mild robberies, became a snappy dresser, a smooth dancer, a competent wisecracker, a good fighter who suffered the agreeable misfortune of being pursued by pretty, immoral girls who could not leave him alone. A shifty friend named Slavin got him a job in a bank, but just as Pete was beginning to get ahead, Slavin was arrested for theft...