Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole regatta was marked by a smooth cooperation on the part of all officials, contestants, spectators, etc. There were only three cases of capsized boats, one of those occurring in the Woman's Singles, oddly enough. Following this race, in his capacity as referee, was James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, and aided by his gallant crew in the Newell Boat Club motor launch, Red Top, he salvaged the beat, along with its skipper...
Like many plays of its type, Double Harness has the major fault of trying to make an arresting problem out of a painfully apparent fallacy. Nonetheless, pleasant interiors, good clothes and two smooth performances by its principal actors help make it inoffensive comedy drama until the last reel. This, which has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot, concerns a strange dinner party at the Fletchers. One by one the guests are called away by drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When...
...spite of only one rehearsal, youthful Conductor Barzin produced smooth, energetic interpretations of a program scarcely calculated to arouse enthusiasm. He is partial to his contemporaries, likes to balance comparable works by modern Europeans and Americans. His audiences at the Stadium heard seven U. S. composers, including three New Yorkers, Philip James (Overture in Olden Style on French Noels), Robert Braine (S. O. S.), Deems Taylor (Through the Looking Glass). Without frills, Barzin directs in a kinetic physical style, occasionally threatens to get ahead of his orchestra in timing. But some critics found the concerts directed by him the best...
...private plane, an ace pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House...
...Manhattan carried President Roosevelt's premier Braintruster. smooth, positive Professor Raymond Moley. and slashing, impulsive Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime Executive Editor of Manhattan's defunct World. Fourteen years ago red-headed dynamic Journalist Swope attended the Paris Peace Conference as a mere correspondent. Last week, out of a job but rich because of a stock market killing in 1929, he sailed as "special adviser" to Professor Moley, took along as his own private secretary Son Herbert Bayard...