Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall hill on which perches the citadel of Prague sped the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein. When Commoner William Jennings Bryan was U.S. Secretary of State, he once called Mr. Einstein an "invaluable adjunct" to that Department. Lion Hunter Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1918, "Mr. Lewis Einstein . . . foresaw the War. He foresaw our entry into...
...broken-down horse attracted the attention of Winifred, Duchess of Portland, in London some months ago. Touched by the creature's piteous air, Her Grace bought it on the spot. Last fortnight she displayed it to her royal house guests, who beheld a nag still old, but now sleek and roly-poly...
...sleek, dark hair of General Theodore Pangalos, the "Mussolini of Greece," turned white when he was deposed as Dictator and jailed (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week, the iron barred door of General Pangalos' cell opened by command of his great and wily friend, M. Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just maneuvered himself into the Prime Ministry (TIME, June...
Dramatic in the life of Bambi is his first passionate fight, antler-locked with a rival buck, for Faline, sleek and lovely mate. Dramatic is the first fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher...
...from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...