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Word: sleek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective Scaffa, son of a Sicilian contractor, looks and acts as if he might have been invented by Dashiell Hammett. He is tall and dark, sleek, sad-eyed, softspoken, close-mouthed and elusive. The public has heard that he lives quietly with his mother in The Bronx, takes no interest in women, has never read a detective story in his life. No one except Scaffa knows just how much stolen property he has retrieved. He puts the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Retriever in Trouble | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...Bouisson. To succeed Premier Flandin, President Lebrun turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Change at Crisis | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

THIS adventure in symbolism carries surprising conviction for a book so frankly labelled "A nInterlude." It is the story of the old Fraulein Emma, her cat, her canary, the sleek Karl, and kind aged Wolfgang...

Author: By A. C. B, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand the cat, so Adolf, her butcher-boy swain, has the cat made away with. That very night sleek, feline Karl puts in an appearance. When Karl stabs the faithful old dog, up pops a grizzled old gardener. By the time the long-lost Josef returns from the U. S. to claim his middle-aged bride, her cottage has become the battleground of eerie forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairytale | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...dulcet crooning soprano, is the only person who is unfortunately cast. Her really delightful voice is not given ample opportunity. The girl who so successfully put over "Your Head on My Shoulder" in "Kid Millions" deserves a better break than the comic "Rhythm of the Rain." The sleek beauty of Merle Oberon produced a gasping reaction in the audience, and the rest of the cast were adequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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