Word: slacked
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...polar calm of Hollywood's Ciro's, whose audiences are notoriously cool to anyone who isn't yet fashionable in Manhattan, Kay Thompson was packing them in at $3,000 a week. Dressed in one of her 25 sleek slack-suits, Comedienne Thompson stepped into the spotlight, looking like a caricature of the neurotic, world-weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song...
After sixty minutes of hard football on the hottest day in memory the Crimson eleven tightened their belts a few notches to take up the slack left by dissolved avoirdupois...
...before a game, the application deadline; (2) posting of detailed ticket purchasing instructions on the bulletin board outside of the ticket office; (3) exchange of coupons for tickets outside of the cashier's cage so that more men can be accommodated; and (4) increased advertisement of the office's slack hours 9 to 11 o'clock...
...even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce the new capacity of ten million tons...
...travel credit covering the fare and such incidentals as hotel bills, clothing and sports equipment. Within 24 hours, if their local credit is good, they will receive their tickets. Interest on the loans will range from 4% to 7%, depending on the bank, will be less in slack travel seasons...