Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...madhouse sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...
...considered the third largest news source in the U. S. More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
Aside from Franklin Roosevelt-who is rated an amateur-smooth-tongued, silver-haired, 46-year-old Funnyman Jack Benny is the biggest voice in radio. With a Crossley (Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting) rating of 42.4, an estimated audience of 11,000,000 families, he is so important to General Foods, his sponsor, that the company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year...
...described as "an elderly individual, apparently a religious fanatic." defiled the white gateposts of the U. S. Embassy with two buckets of filth. The Tokyo newspaper Miyako warned: "Cases may arise where Japan is forced to accept the American challenge." On the specific subject of whether Admiral Nomura could smooth U. S.-Japanese relations, militant Koknmin wrote: "Our people should know that relations between the two countries are so hopelessly strained they do not allow for such wishful thinking...
...understood that two of the prettiest chorines from "All In Fun," selected by a competent, if unofficial, committee of two, were to be called in to smooth out some of the simple dance routines. The same committee, it was understood, would then escort the girls to dance to the music of Al Booris and his orchestra, later in the evening