Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...
Next job for Minister Eden was to soft-soap Premier Mussolini, clarify his country's position. To that end smooth Mr. Eden trickled down to Rome, turned on his charm. Il Duce likewise turned on his charm, with the result that their conversation was marked by a cordiality quite removed from the slight frigidity which attended Mr. Eden's explanations to France. Reserving most of his diplomatic honey for a second conversation to be held next day, Mr. Eden nevertheless found time in two hours to assure Signor Mussolini that Britain would make no further bilateral agreements with...
Grace Moore has, most critics agree, a smooth pleasant voice, a pretty face, a fine figure, an abundance of vitality and a driving ambition. She ran away from finishing school in Washington, D. C. to go on the stage, against her parents' wishes. She made a Broadway name in the Music Box Revue. Aspiring to Metropolitan Opera, she had a potent friend in the late Otto Kahn. Most critics were indifferent when they heard her there. But she stayed three years, studied hard, paid the claque well. The Metropolitan label proved a sure entrée to radio...
...would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval on which in the past two years two successive world's records for the mile have been...
...what Director Brisbane did not say about "News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns-the tough, smooth Chicago managing editor who stole the dead woman's stomach from the coroner's physician to prove she was poisoned; who scooped the town on a jailbreak, caught the mayor in skulduggery, shanghaied his ace reporter from his honeymoon all in three dizzy acts...