Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the Turkish consul at Odessa, sleek Raouf Bey, returned to Istanbul with 14 enormous trunks. This, the Turkish customs decided, was going several trunks too far. They obtained Dictator Kemal's permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...
...York society girl most in demand this season as a model is Miss Mary Taylor whose sleek figure and expression of aristocratic disdain are just what modistes and manufacturers desire as a symbol of the superiority of their wares. Twenty years old, a debutante of 1932, known as "Mimsy" to her friends, Miss Taylor is the daughter of Bertrand L. Taylor and the present Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo. She is careful to avoid posing for any of the more intimate feminine accessories, but she is always available for such publications as Vogue, such smart shops as Jay Thorpe and Saks...
...board, stepped into his company's newest train, sat down in a Pullman named "E. H. Harriman." Also aboard were U. P.'s President Carl Raymond Gray, and many an other bigwig. This was no ordinary train; it was the railroad's answer to aviation-a sleek streak of canary-yellow speed...
...great doors of the Royal Air Force hangars opened wide at 3 a. m. One sleek machine after another was wheeled out. The deep-throated roar of their engines being tuned up fairly shook the field. Since midnight they had been converging on the new R. A. F. airdrome at Mildenhall, 60 miles from London. Over the field and its floodlights hung pitch-black night...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...