Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleek, white DeSoto sporting a uniformed driver, a neatly lettered legend "Cambridge Protective Patrol," and an attractive young feminine occupant--has caused considerable speculation around the Square lately. Some had it that the Police Department was undergoing extensive modernization...
Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...
...inspecting the welter of exhibits purporting to show what Science had done for Mankind. What he saw did not impress Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas. The festoons of electric lights, he knew, burned with an efficiency of less than 2%. The television was blurry. The loudspeakers were squawky. There were sleek, fast automobiles which converted less than a tenth of their fuel into motive power. Display after display recounted the triumphs of medicine while a preventable outbreak of amebic dysentery in Chicago sickened 721 people, killed...
...Journal, the other tall, lean David ("Dave") Davidson of the New York Post. Bored with what seemed to be routine assignments, they first sought out Swedish Admiral Fabian Tamm, listened politely while he claimed that his was a peaceful nation. From peaceful Admiral Tamm they went to Gertrud Wettergren, sleek, dark-haired Swedish contralto who is shortly to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Mme Wettergren was nervously crossing her fingers, knocking on wood. Perfunctorily the reporters wished her luck, whereupon she flashed a wide smile, presented her back, said "Kick...
Whatever the critics thought made no difference to the general public. It swept into the gallery in droves, gaped at slick prettified likenesses of Will Rogers, William Randolph Hearst, Richard Barthelmess, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Aloysius Farley, lingered longest over lush, sleek-hipped nudes in the yellow marble lobby. Five years ago Artist Christy got a thousand or so dollars for a portrait. Today he charges his sitters...