Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell to the ground with a gruesome, final thud...
Since France had to have a Cabinet, payment or no payment, President Lebrun finally summoned the sleek, white-maned lawyer who has been M. Herriot's War Minister, famed Senator Joseph Paul-Boncour...
...horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls of big, soft gold pieces stamped with his hard, sharp profile...
...Five sleek, silver-coated Lockheed Orions were already in their hangars at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and United Airport, Burbank, Calif, last week, two more on their way from the factory. They are specially built, low-wing monoplanes, windowless, with retractable landing gear, designed to fly 170 m. p. h. with half-ton loads. The schedule westbound calls for take-off at 6 p. m., arrival at 8:45 a. m. Eastbound, take-off 12:45 p.m., arrive...
...arena was crowded as Judge Biggar watched beef on the hoof waddle by. Among the 750 was many a Hereford, returned to prominence. Finally the Biggar cane, at last removed from the Biggar arm pointed to a sleek fat Hereford from Texas, named Texas Special. Owner William Largent of Merkel, Tex., let out a whoop...