Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
...wife fairly stripped her pet poodle for hairs to give to admirers who believed they came from the great composer's head. When Johann Strauss III left Vienna, Viennese prophesied that he would return without the loss of a single one of his sleek grey locks...
...decision had fallen to him because two high-born women were at war over the girl's custody. One was sleek, brittle Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, 29. the child's mother. The other was the child's aunt, lean-faced, determined Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, born Gertrude Vanderbilt 57 years ago. For two years Mrs. Whitney had kept her late brother's only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little...
...stroke of midnight a sleek black limousine rolled up to Annie's alley. Annie and her apples were whisked across town to the Waldorf-Astoria, escorted to a three-room suite. As a tip the bellboy received an apple. The bed was too soft, the nightgown too silky, the gold & rose furnishings too frightening to permit sleep. Annie paced the deep plush carpet. Next morning she climbed into bed for breakfast. The pressagents took her to a Fifth Avenue smartshop. Shrewdly she chose two black gowns, both very simple, very tasteful, very expensive. After lunch, to her great delight...
...just over an hour a double line of sleek Manhattan socialites, confined by a red plush rope, edged down a long corridor, edged past the receiving line, edged on into the Grand Ballroom for dinner. After dinner Mrs. Morrow made a little speech about the initials Y. W. C. A., thought of all the nice things she could which began with Y (Youth), with W (Wisdom), C (Charity) and A (Alertness). To close the program, 500 Young Women trooped in, presented a pageant of Y. W. C. A. activities...