Word: sleekest
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Last week this sleekest of ocean greyhounds nosed into Haifa, the port of call for Jerusalem, and one who is not a babbitt hastened ashore...
...some of them have surprising names-the names of well-known capitalists, famed lawyers, architects, actors, brokers. It is absurd to hear such names applied to inky insolence in corduroy. Mr. Tabor was aware of this; he showed it by setting rows of black-marks against some of the sleekest platinum-and-roseleaf names; he would stand 60-pound celebrities in the corner with their hands over their heads. And he was ones leader of a club* of 10,000 boys with names like Doolan, Silverstein, Coveleskie, Giacomo-and some with no names...