Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is it all about? Trusting readers who plunge in hopefully to a smooth beginning soon find themselves floundering in troubled waters. Arrogant Author Joyce gives them no help, lets them sink or swim. But thanks to the exploratory works of critics, and notably such an exegetical commentary as Stuard Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that...
Exhibiting the smooth play of an experienced outfit, the Princeton hockey team defeated a fighting Crimson sextet 5-2 in a lively contest at the Garden Saturday. It was the second victory for Princeton, giving the Tigers their first series over Harvard in nearly twenty years. Since Yale lost to Dartmouth at the same time that the Crimson players were bowing to the Orange and Black, the latter are now leading the Intercollegiate Quadrangular league...
...credited with developing Cadillac's huge, electric-smooth V16 is Lawrence P. Fisher, president of GM's Cadillac division and one of the seven Fisher brothers of body fame. Lawrence Fisher is now a notable art collector but he is also a mechanic who learned his trade at his father's forge and anvil. He had a new car up his sleeve for the Auto Show-a La Salle, completely redesigned and repriced at $1,495, a cut of $750 from last year's figure...
Hupmobile approached the egg-shape of pure aerodynamics more closely than any other make at the show except Chrysler and De Soto. But its broad front and smooth taper to the rear was achieved without scrapping all points of traditional design...
Tenor Martini went to the Metropolitan handsomely advertised by Columbia Broadcasting System which for the past year has sponsored his radio performances. But for all his beautiful legs and a smooth, ingratiating voice critics found him short of Metropolitan standards. He was often flat. His loudly-touted top notes were strained. It was the oldtimer who had the week's warmest reception. Soprano Claudia Muzio, who left the Met twelve years ago to sing in Chicago, returned, gave a stirring performance in La Traviata...