Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the afternoon the whole cross country squad traveled by car to the Brookline Country Club for a practise session over the fairways and bunkers. Everything ran along smoothly for the first part of the chase, the squad driving well, approaching carefully to avoid irate golfers, and sinking long putts over smooth greens...
Premier Laval is displaying amazingly little of the clear logic for which his race has been historically noted in his present efforts to smooth over the annoying little unpleasantness in East Africa. Piously dressed in his Sunday-go-to-Geneva best, Mr. Laval suggests that if only Great Britain will recall her fleet from the Mediterranean and leave her children, Gilbraltar, Malta, and Egypt, to be watched over by the eye of heaven alone, Mussolini will stop cringing from fear and beat his swords into plowshares for use on the Roman Campagna...
...contend with. . . . "N. R." . . . has shown an utter disdain for advertisers. His favorite expression, when confronted by me with the announcement that he was losing business because of attacks he made on our best advertisers, was "to hell with them," and he meant it. I never knew him to smooth over an advertiser even if he knew he was wrong. . . . One of the most interesting phases of Rounsevell's personality ... is the fact that during his lifetime he has adopted three generations of children. When he was nine years old he persuaded his mother to adopt a baby orphan...
...smooth out the bad impression all this might have made on Yugoslavia, Boris' Foreign Minister Kiosseivanoff last week stopped off on his way home from the League of Nations and had a soothing talk with Yugoslavia's Minister of Finance Milan Stojadinovitch...
...Last January," he said, "France began to 'pussyfoot' in her relations with Italy, trying to smooth over former antagonism. Friendly advances were made, and semi-official approval was given to Italy's actions in Ethiopia. The underlying principle in this move was in keeping with her entire foreign policy: i.e. that an ally against Germany is worth the entire African continent...