Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...
...Luxor, Egypt, all travelers who pay may hear a fat & sleek native gentleman mumble and whistle and beat a tambour...
Then, as the Nineteenth Century drew to its close, was the golden time of the Waldorf-Astoria. Prancing, sleek horses drew gleaming broughams and victorias to the doors, porters ushered bejewelled ladies and distinguished gentlemen into the labyrinthine lobby. Hansom cabs picked up titled fares at the portals...
...frightening decolletage playing blind man's buff and shrieking DON'T HELP ME! DON'T HELP ME! to a row of gallants cringing away from her fat lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes...
Philharmonic subscribers were for the most part amused by Gershwin's pictures. They spied him, sleek and smiling, sitting in a box, and clapped him cordially. Gershwin's critical public is still a house divided against itself. To the extremists on the one hand he is making the most significant music of the day. To others he is out of place and ineffective away from Tin-Pan Alley. Certainly the Concerto, trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence...