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Later the Times cooled down to the following well-bred remarks, the sleek irony of which will be lost on stupid people: "It is not easy for a European touching American shores to discern the pressure of a financial burden estimated by the President to exceed that of any other nation and to comprise 'half the entire wealth of the country at the time it entered the conflict...
...less sensational than the Government's loss was the win scored by big, sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward, who was Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. On the eve of the present election he united the Liberals and Nationalists (who had previously mastered but eleven seats) into his new Union Party and won, last week, a total of 26 seats-only two less than are held by the Government...
...gangplank of the S. S. Paris a fortnight ago, said a few fast greetings in French and moved down the pier to the luggage space allotted those whose names began with A. There were 22 trunks to be passed on, trunks filled with costumes which were white and ruffled, sleek and black, cloudy and lacey: trunks for gay mantillas, for red and green and golden slippers. Even customs officers looked their awe. Such colors, such stuffs were rare. Such charm was rare too, but at the moment no commensurate assurance swelled the breast of the sparkling creature. To be sure...
Gloom, distress and shame descended, last week, upon the sleek, waxen faced, bandolined and faintly perfumed gigolos of Paris...
...case of William Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...