Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Lewis G. Slack of 120 Waverly Street, Everett, cousin of Armstrong, added however, that the youth was given to intense periods of solitary study ever since he entered the School of Arts and Sciences last February. "He'd been going at it awfully hard lately," said Slack...
According to Slack, Armstrong would return early in the evening and study uninterruptedly until long past midnight...
...Slack also recalled that the English major was subject to severe attacks of headache, and that he was treated for this condition at Stillman Infirmary last spring...
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...