Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impassive as a baby and equally susceptible, enormously pleased with the sleek clothes and large automobiles which changed circumstances made it possible for him to possess, Louis was no less pleased with this explanation of the change. To illustrate his own faith in the legend of Joe Louis, he got married two hours before he fought Baer. The more perfectly he lived up to the weird picture of himself created by the Press, the more frantically the Press worked to improve the picture. By last autumn Louis was not merely the ablest fighter of his generation but the greatest...
...Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather, Franklyn L. Hutton, who beamed over Countess Barbara's shoulder...
...Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized the bull by the horns by marching straight into the Harkness office. How much, calmly asked Mr. Harkness, did Lawrenceville want? Twelve days later Headmaster Heely returned with his sleek head full of ideas, got Edward S. Harkness' promise to erect and endow a new administration building, split two old classroom buildings into 49 conference rooms fitted out with oval tables, easy chairs and rugs, hire enough new teachers to make the Plan work...
Onetime Senator George Higgins Moses from New Hampshire rushed about making statements to stir up enthusiasm for Candidate Frank Knox. Bald-domed Carl Bachmann from West Virginia bustled for Candidate Borah. But the spotlight burned steadily on the sleek, curly head of young John Hamilton, manager for Alf Landon. Perched on the back of an overstuffed chair in Cleveland's old-fashioned Hollenden Hotel, Hamilton had the Press basking at his feet as he announced that Landon would have over 300-no-over 400 votes, perhaps a majority (502 votes) on the first ballot...
Lawd make preacher big an' fat, Sleek an' shiny lak a beaver...