Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there now is not the forcible rule...
...derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives...
...next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named Jim Crelliman (C. Henry Gordon). Lawyer Durant brings him to justice, forms what looks like a lasting attachment with the sleek underworld girl (Myrna Loy) who helps him. Adapted from a story by Arthur Somers Roche and ably directed by William S. Van Dyke-whose specialty heretofore has been wild animal pictures- Penthouse is good, straightforward Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerdrama, with glass doors and modern furniture. Most exciting shot: one of Crelliman's underlings (George...
Frederick John Perry has a sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they...
...Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly...