Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strike Me Pink" -- Majestic, 44th Street W.--An unbeatable trio in Hope Williams, who lends the Park Avenue tone, Jimmy Durante with the horselaugh and omnipresent schnozzlo, and Lupe Velez with eyes and things and sighs. Smooth music...
Working overtime to smooth down bristling anti-French sentiment in the U. S., the French Foreign Office decided last week that better phraseology might help. From the French point of view, Paris grammarians solemnly pointed out, there are three major kinds of written English: 1) literal translations from French into what barely passes for English; 2) British English which is objectionable to many U. S. citizens; and 3) U. S. English which, all things considered, seems best for use on Americans...
Pons. Next week Lily Pons begins a concert tour with first stops at Buffalo, Harrisburg, Washington. Ita, the seven-month-old jaguar which she brought last autumn from South America, will travel with her. Ita rests most comfortably on cold, smooth steel. On the train he will sleep in the washbasin. In hotels he prefers the inside of a grand piano...
...Berlin Richard Tauber has been lavishing his smooth, high notes on "Schweig, zagendes Herz!" and "Lange Jahre, bange Jahre," oldstyle operetta numbers from Franz Lehar's Der Fürst der Berge...
Senator Pomerene does not err in fearing a loss of smooth operative efficiency with the Corporation records available to all. He might once have been correct in regretting the unfounded, distrust of the beneficiary banks which would obtain among certain portions of the people. But no pure consideration of expediency, however strong, should invalidate the very real right of the public to accurate knowledge of the financial functions of its government. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has no prerogative to the secrecy which has been denied the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Federal Reserve Board. Although it is futile to talk...