Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to have a look at the U. S. armament business. Its members had been reading books, looking at magazines and listening to lectures, and on the theory that gunsmiths and powder-makers instigate wars to sell their goods, the Senate created a special investigating committee and put slim, sleek-haired Senator Nye of North Dakota in charge...
Banker Reno Odlin of Olympia, sleek and 37, was the Republican choice for Senator. Like his opponent, he is a U. of W. alumnus, a onetime State Commander of the American Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington...
...waited for the train to come in Prince George, in immaculate morning dress, fingered his top hat nervously for some 15 minutes, waved once or twice to the hundreds of British women who kept waving at him from behind police lines. As Princess Marina stepped out in a sleek, brick-red ensemble Prince George took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek, received a kiss on his cheek in return...
...doing, from opening the Chamber of Deputies to attending a garden party, grizzled, militant King Vittorio Emmanuele III nearly always wears the uniform of a general. For a wonder last week His Majesty put on civilian clothes, stepped with Her Majesty and their youngest daughter Princess Maria into a sleek Fiat limousine. It slid down the crushed oyster shell drive of the royal villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal...
...crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon the buyers would stream out of the city with notes and gossip on the fashions Paris was about to set the world...