Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...
...windows of the ancient guild houses which still surround La Grande Place. Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination of his recent tour of Africa...
...been sleek, blond Jack Honoré, the tall and loquacious Swedish barber just down Nassau Street, the check would have been cashed. Great Princeton character though Joe is, Barber Jack is a greater. By some occult means, he possesses himself of names, schools, home towns, parental fames-some say, of the tax returns, creeds and girlfriends' names-of every member of every entering class. Barber Jack would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...blue Mediterranean and the bluer Adriatic seemingly lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...