Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Special trains can go special places. One afternoon last week five sleek Pullman cars backed into the little West Shore R. R. town of Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey...
...tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost to a long-driving young Western pro named Willie Goggin, who tied for seventh in the U. S. Open last spring. In the second round, sleek, crinkly-eyed Johnny Farrell put out Olin ("King Kong") Dutra, the defending champion, 1 up. There is always one comparatively unknown golfer who does well in the P. G. A. but last week there were two in the round of eight: Goggin and Hines. The real surprise of the tournament came...
...specialty, filet de sole Marguery. When he got a chance to go to London and the Savoy, he jumped at it. His food and quarters there were so much better that he became discontented, thought again of Henry's bomb when he caught glimpses of the sleek diners in the grillroom...
...Australia's sleek, vigorous, hawk-featured former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce was first Chief Delegate to explode in a Conference session: "This Conference is a failure...
...plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William...